Brugman Asylum Law & Appeals PLLC

07/30/2026

9th Cir.: noncitizens who entered EWI not subject to mandatory detention under 235(a), majority opinion by Trump appointee.

07/13/2026

"disciplinary action if [IJ's] follow the Law instead of following [the admin.'s] policy."

07/02/2026

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

06/26/2026

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday called for stronger independent oversight of the United States immigration detention system and investigations into all deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.

06/24/2026

The ruling in a class-action lawsuit filed in California applies to immigration courts nationwide.

06/23/2026

In 1980, the U.S. Senate passed the Refugee Act without a single vote against it. Democrats and Republicans, in the same room, agreeing that America should be the country that takes people in when the world turns against them.

That law built something the rest of the world came to admire. For most of the next 45 years, the U.S. led the world in refugee resettlement. We didn't do it carelessly. We did it with one of the most thorough vetting systems anywhere, often two to three years of interviews, background checks, and screening before anyone arrived.

On this World Refugee Day, we want to say that a strong refugee pipeline is an American achievement. It reflects our security, our values, and our confidence as a nation. The families who came through it became citizens, business owners, and neighbors who've given back many times over.

We've led on this before. We can lead on it again.

06/01/2026

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“The new Adjustment of Status memo is not a policy shift. It is an attempt to make a federal statute disappear through administrative suffocation”, Charles Kuck writes.

05/30/2026