Acronyms
IJ
What is an Immigration Judge?
This agency enforces immigration law in the US.
What is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)?
This is the year that family separation started under the Trump Administration.
What is 2017?
This is the amount of time that an asylum seeker has to file their asylum claim after arriving in the United States.
What is 1 year?
This case allowed for asylum applicants to file after the standard asylum deadline if they did not receive appropriate notice of the deadline.
What is Mendez v. Rojas?
LPR
What is Lawful Permanent Resident?
This agency enforces immigration law at the border.
What is Customs and Border Protection (CBP)?
This is where the Trump Administration claims it piloted the Zero Tolerance Policy in the summer of 2017.
What is the Rio Grande Valley?
A person who meets the definition of a refugee but is physically present in the US or at the border/point of entry when he/she seeks refuge.
What is an asylee?
This decision stated that the family unit could not be considered a particular social group but was vacated in June 2021.
What is Matter of LEA?
TPS
What is Temporary Protected Status?
This agency deals with appeals in immigration court.
What is the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)?
This is the number of children whose parents the government was unable to locate at the end of family separation.
What is 545?
The protected grounds of which the past persecution or well-founded fear of future persecution is based upon. (Name two!)
What is race, religion, particular social group, political opinion, or nationality?
This decision was vacated in June 2021 but overruled a prior precedent that had recognized “married women in Guatemala who are unable to leave their relationship” as a particular social group.
What is Matter of AB?
PD
What is Prosecutorial Discretion?
This agency oversees lawful immigration to the US.
What is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS)?
This was the attorney general the Zero Tolerance Policy started.
Who is Jeff Sessions?
These are the two ways in which the government can rebut the presumption of a well-founded fear.
What is fundamental change in circumstance and reasonable internal relocation?
This case decided that a notice to appear must be a single document that contains all the required information in order to trigger the IIRIRA’s time-stop rule.
What is Niz-Chavez v. Garland?
FTCA
What is the Federal Tort Claims Act?
This agency conducts immigration court proceedings.
What is the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)?
This was the original Zero Tolerance program under the Bush Administration that criminally prosecuted those who crossed the border unauthorized.
What is Operation Streamline?
The requirements for a particular social group. (Name two!)
What is common immutable characteristic, particularity, and social distinction?
This case was decided by the Supreme Court in 2021 and held that a TPS recipient who entered the country unlawfully is not eligible for LPR status.
What is Sanchez v. Mayorkas?