Asylum and Withholding of Removal Report:  New BIA Decisions on “Particular Social Group” Claims

George P Mann
Blog, Immigration Updates
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This month, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) published Matter of M-E-V-G-, 26 I&N DEC. 227 (BIA 2014) and Matter of W-G-R-, 26 I&N DEC. 208 (BIA 2014), both of which consider the eligibility of asylum and withholding of removal protection in the United States in the context of membership in a “particular social group.” Respondents…
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The Origins of Migration

George P Mann
From George
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The following thoughts don’t have much to do with our current day to day work as immigration professionals.  But from time to time, it’s good to look at the bigger picture.  It helps us clarify our understanding about often unmentioned and unexamined roots of the social/political/moral forces at work in our field. Humans, like many…
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