“The BIA and IJ (collectively, “the company”) didn’t handle whether or not Paye’s escape from Liberia due to systematic ethnic cleaning and genocide of the Krahn individuals through the Liberian civil conflict constituted previous persecution. This hindered our potential to meaningfully overview the company’s denial of withholding of removing. Accordingly, we vacate and remand.”
NOTE: ICE, in violation of CA1 Native Rule 18, deported (“eliminated”) the Petitioner in the midst of litigation, prompting this Order from the Court docket: “By no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, July 26, 2024, Respondent is ordered to offer to the Court docket, intimately, a proof of how and why Petitioner was eliminated. Respondent shall additionally make all mandatory inquiries and, on the similar time, present all info in its possession, custody, or management regarding (1) Petitioner’s present location and his situation whereas in transit again to the USA, together with whether or not he’s presently detained by authorities or in any other case, and (2) the bills that Petitioner is anticipated to incur in returning to this nation. Respondent’s submission to this Court docket shall be made beneath the pains and penalties of perjury. Petitioner might, however isn’t required to, submit further info documenting his journey bills inside 7 days of his return to the USA., notifying celebration of alternative to answer movement for miscellaneous aid.”
[Hats off to SangYeob Kim, with whom Gilles Bissonnette, Margaret Moran, American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, and New Hampshire Legal Assistance were on brief, and Daniel V. Ward, Marianne Staniunas, Abigail Alfaro, Michelle Marie Mlacker, Colleen Roberts, and Ropes & Gray LLP were on brief for Immigration Law Professors and Former Immigration Judges and Board of Immigration Appeals Members, a.k.a. the “Round Table”, amici curiae! Listen to the oral argument here.]
