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Ep. 260 - Precedential Decisions from 4/14/2025 - 4/20/2025 (illegal abduction and disappearing of individuals with withholding of removal grant; Executive overreach; facilitate; naturalization during	Immigration Review	27:42
Ep. 259 - Precedential Decisions from 4/7/2025 - 4/13/2025 (exceptional & extremely unusual hardship; failure to consider psychological report; notice of appeal deadline; former police officers; nexus	Immigration Review	44:09
Ep. 258 - Precedential Decisions from 3/31/2025 - 4/6/2025 (PSG cooperators against MS-13; social distinction & ocular visibility; crime of violence; realistic probability test; naturalization review;	Immigration Review	42:25
Ep. 257 - Precedential Decisions from 3/24/2025 - 3/30/2025 (crime of violence; force through omission; temporary appellate IJs; ultra vires argument; discovery to challenge I-130 denial; INA § 204(c)	Immigration Review	30:15
Ep. 256 - Precedential Decisions from 3/17/2025 - 3/23/2025 (deeming asylum application abandoned for failure to include declaration; point of comparison of CSA and state drug schedule; individualized	Immigration Review	43:48
Important Announcement!	Immigration Review	00:53
Ep. 255 - Precedential Decisions from 3/10/2025 - 3/16/2025 (alienage by clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence; hardship and one-year filing deadline review: satisfaction of Attorney General; as	Immigration Review	50:14
Special Episode - Interview with Rekha and Michael Sharma-Crawford (the Pen & Sword College; trial lawyering in immigration court; personal backgrounds; Laken Riley Act; fighting back against Lozada b	Immigration Review	72:47
Ep. 254 - Precedential Decisions from 3/3/2025 - 3/9/2025 (LPR as arriving alien; parole; false testimony & good moral character; arson aggravated felony; politics in Nicaragua; political opinion; opp	Immigration Review	48:33
Ep. 253 - Precedential Decisions from 2/24/2025 - 3/2/2025 (exceptions to Hague Act adoption; habitual residence; I-130 petition by adoptive parent; crime of violence; threat of sodomy accusation; Vir	Immigration Review	23:58
Ep. 252 - Precedential Decisions from 2/17/2025 - 2/23/2025 (odd, ends, and immigration news; in absentia motion to reopen; stop-time rule; equitable tolling; sua sponte; exceptional circumstances for	Immigration Review	21:03
Ep. 251 - Precedential Decisions from 2/10/2025 - 2/16/2025 (past persecution - Roma; disfavored group; firearms offense; CIMT & Loper Bright; continuance & diligence; drugs; sua sponte reopening; DV	Immigration Review	69:00
Ep. 250 - Precedential Decisions from 2/3/2025 - 2/9/2025 (BIA overturning IJ; under color of law; Cal. Pen Code § 1473.7 vacated conviction; procedural or substantive defect; fear of cartels in Mexic	Immigration Review	37:53
Ep. 249 - Precedential Decisions from 1/27/2025 - 2/2/2025 (single scheme of criminal conduct; two or more CIMTs; derivative naturalization; present-perfect tense; legal separation; Loper Bright)	Immigration Review	24:50
Ep. 248 - Precedential Decisions from 1/20/2025 - 1/26/2025 (recent thoughts; CAT protection & credibility; crime of violence; general intent crimes; detention - dangerousness, mixed question of law a	Immigration Review	47:09
Ep. 247 - Precedential Decisions from 1/13/2025 - 1/19/2025 (CIMTs & fleeing police; res judicata; electronic notice; indigenous men & nexus; PSG identification on appeal; aggravated felony obstructio	Immigration Review	50:37
Ep. 246 - Precedential Decisions from 1/6/2025 - 1/12/2025 (Laken Riley Act; duty to intervene standard for government acquiesce or consent for CAT deferral; UN duty to intervene; two-pronged analysis	Immigration Review	17:46
Ep. 245 - Precedential Decisions from 12/30/2024 - 1/5/2025 (SCOTUS preview; crime of violence; “bodily injury”; emotional or verbal injury; realistic probability test; wholesale exclusion of evidence	Immigration Review	20:16
Ep. 244 - Precedential Decisions from 12/23/2024 - 12/29/2024 (prior adverse credibility & reopening; stolen property aggravated felony; VAWA & hardship reopening; well-founded fear & Brazil; definiti	Immigration Review	57:57
Ep. 243 - Precedential Decisions from 12/16/2024 - 12/22/2024 (EB-2 visa; I-140 revocation; temporary Appellate IJ; Attorney General and INA § 103(g); BIA asylum affirmance; in absentia motion to reop	Immigration Review	39:37
Ep. 242 - Precedential Decisions from 12/9/2024 - 12/15/2024 (crime of violence; H-1B & marijuana industry; revocation of I-130 petition; circumstance specific approach; aggravated felony rape; advers	Immigration Review	49:05
Ep. 241 - Precedential Decisions from 12/2/2024 - 12/8/2024 (Senator Markey Immigrants' List event!; mental health; extraordinary circumstances exception to one-year asylum deadline; changed circumsta	Immigration Review	17:45
Ep. 240 - Precedential Decisions from 11/25/2024 - 12/1/2024 (thank you Patrons!; CAT deferral; political power in Guinea; exhaustion of particularly serious crime argument before the BIA; MD. Crim. C	Immigration Review	15:16
Ep. 239 - Precedential Decisions from 11/18/2024 - 11/24/2024 (BIA notice of appeal deadlines; equitable tolling; diligence; timely objection to deficient NTA; retroactivity; federal definition of mar	Immigration Review	29:32
Ep. 238 - Precedential Decisions from 11/11/2024 - 11/17/2024 (nexus to political opinion; church leaders; small business owners; death threats, extortion & past persecution; reasonable relocation; ga	Immigration Review	40:13
Ep. 237 - Precedential Decisions from 11/4/2024 - 11/10/2024 (mental competency; M-A-M- safeguards; termination for regulator violations; serious reasons for believing serious non-political crime; pro	Immigration Review	25:10
Ep. 236 - Precedential Decisions from 10/28/2024 - 11/3/2024 (denaturalization; ineffective assistance of counsel; CIMT; elements of sentence enhancement; aging out qualifying relatives; hardship revi	Immigration Review	48:51
Ep. 235 - Precedential Decisions from 10/21/2024 - 10/27/2024 (past persecution; death threats; nexus; family membership; metering; injunction; credibility; hardship review; Haitian mental health clai	Immigration Review	35:02
Ep. 234 - Precedential Decisions from 10/14/2024 - 10/20/2024 (in absentia motion to reopen - exceptional circumstances; totality of circumstances; traffic accidents; past persecution; unfulfilled thr	Immigration Review	25:49
Ep. 233 - Precedential Decisions from 10/7/2024 - 10/13/2024 (family-based past persecution claim; harm to family members as persecution; unable or unwilling to control only in home city in Mexico; Sa	Immigration Review	20:28
Ep. 232 - Precedential Decisions from 9/30/2024 - 10/6/2024 (EB-3 visa; revoked I-140 petition; portability; credibility; Matter of R-K-K-; similar affidavits; DHS charts; relocation)	Immigration Review	28:09
Ep. 231 - Precedential Decisions from 9/23/2024 - 9/29/2024 (Ukraine; Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; wrongful removal; generic federal definition of methamphet	Immigration Review	28:17
Ep. 230 - Precedential Decisions from 9/16/2024 - 9/22/2024 (CIMT & retail theft; family, nexus & mixed motive; DHS non-opp to motion to remand; prolonged detention; FARO & aggravated felony obstructi	Immigration Review	53:40
Ep. 229 - Precedential Decisions from 9/9/2024 - 9/15/2024 (failure to report as a child; manner of entry, jurisdiction & Patel; petty theft & CIMT; single scheme; pardons; Skidmore deference; fetus p	Immigration Review	37:37
Ep. 228 - Precedential Decisions from 9/2/2024 - 9/8/2024 (deficient NTA; claims processing rule; termination; IJ amending NTA; crime of violence; recklessness; Borden; Cal. Pen. Code § 245(a)(1) assa	Immigration Review	25:12
Ep. 227 - Precedential Decisions from 8/26/2024 - 9/1/2024 (reopening standard; attempted child abuse; jurisdiction - Patel, I-601 & I-751; nexus & harm in the U.S.; reasonable fear review; derivative	Immigration Review	56:08
Ep. 226 - Precedential Decisions from 8/19/2024 - 8/25/2024 (asylum; withholding of removal; CAT; imputed political opinion; substantial evidence; past persecution; nexus; corroborating evidence)	Immigration Review	15:37
Ep. 225 - Precedential Decisions from 8/12/2024 - 8/18/2024 (vacated criminal conviction & reopening; murder; voluntary departure; temporary BIA members; nexus; police reports & discretion)	Immigration Review	50:15
Ep. 224 - Precedential Decisions from 8/5/2024 - 8/11/2024 (denaturalization & estoppel; mental health & asylum; hardship review; attorney unpreparedness & continuances; particularly serious crimes; d	Immigration Review	65:54
Ep. 223 - Precedential Decisions from 7/29/2024 - 8/4/2024 (challenging DHS regulations; material support of terrorism & due process; naturalization delay; particularly serious crime; mental health is	Immigration Review	44:47

Ep. 260 - Precedential Decisions from 4/14/2025 - 4/20/2025 (illegal abduction and disappearing of individuals with withholding of removal grant; Executive overreach; facilitate; naturalization during

Immigration Review

27:42

Ep. 259 - Precedential Decisions from 4/7/2025 - 4/13/2025 (exceptional & extremely unusual hardship; failure to consider psychological report; notice of appeal deadline; former police officers; nexus

Immigration Review

44:09

Ep. 258 - Precedential Decisions from 3/31/2025 - 4/6/2025 (PSG cooperators against MS-13; social distinction & ocular visibility; crime of violence; realistic probability test; naturalization review;

Immigration Review

42:25

Ep. 257 - Precedential Decisions from 3/24/2025 - 3/30/2025 (crime of violence; force through omission; temporary appellate IJs; ultra vires argument; discovery to challenge I-130 denial; INA § 204(c)

Immigration Review

30:15