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Immigration office’s new structure may have adverse impacts, ABA president says

October 28, 2019

The proposed reorganization of the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review could adversely impact noncitizens’ access to legal information and services and the administrative review of immigration decisions, ABA President Judy Perry Martinez wrote in a letter Friday.

In August, the EOIR published an interim rule amending regulations related to its internal organization. Among other things, it incorporates changes related to the EOIR’s creation of an Office of Policy and redelegates authority to adjudicate appeals from the attorney general to the EOIR director.

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