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September 11, 2002
 
 

BIA CHANGES WOULD RESTRICT ACTIVIST DECISIONS


The Legal Times has a report on proposed changes to the Board of Immigration Appeals. " According to new regulations recently announced by Attorney General John Ashcroft, the jobs of eight of the 19 members of the Board of Immigration Appeals will be slashed, and the board must eliminate its entire backlog of cases by next March." "It's going to restrict the unlimited flow of appeals of immigration judges' decisions," FAIR staff counsel Mike Hethmon told the paper. "The backlog will be reduced because the intake will be reduced. The board will have less discretion to rule on a case because they like the fact pattern."