{"id":319,"date":"2018-06-03T20:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T20:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/kohanreport\/?p=48"},"modified":"2018-06-03T20:52:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T20:52:21","slug":"immigration-judges-knowingly-depriving-children-of-right-to-apply-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/immigration-judges-knowingly-depriving-children-of-right-to-apply-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Judges Knowingly Depriving Children of Right To Apply Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryan Johnson, Apr. 20, 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0–\u00a0FOIA results: evidence of Immigration Judge V. Stuart Couch<\/a>\u2019s shocking prejudgment of all domestic violence asylum claims<\/strong><\/p>\n

“At the bottom, readers will find the all of the decisions of Immigration Judge V. Stuart Couch<\/span><\/strong><\/a> that resulted in BIA remands for the Fiscal Year of 2017.<\/p>\n

Time and time again, IJ Couch\u2019s decisions denying victims of domestic violence asylum contain carbon copy language.<\/p>\n

Thus, it is clear that IJ Couch\u2019s has been prejudging all claims that have a history of domestic violence, and quite literally copying and pasting language he used to deny other domestic violence victims asylum. The following is one of his favorite passages to copy and paste.<\/p>\n

“The respondent\u2019s evidence reflects that [the] physical and verbal abuse of her was related to his violent and jealous nature\u2026The evidence, in this case, is more consistent with acts of general violence and therefore does not constitute evidence of persecution based on a statutorily protected ground.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Immediately below, I have excerpted key parts of the BIA & IJ Couch decisions. A clear pattern has emerged: IJ Couch does not grant asylum to women who are victims of domestic violence, despite clear instructions to the contrary from the BIA.”<\/p>\n

Bryan Johnson, Sept. 29, 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0–\u00a0Investigate Atlanta and Charlotte Immigration Judges For Knowingly Depriving Children of Right To Apply Asylum<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Several Immigration Judges at the Charlotte and Atlanta Immigration Courts are responsible for knowingly and systematically depriving unrepresented immigrants before them of their right to apply for asylum and\/or Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.<\/p>\n

What follows is concrete evidence of this, which will be forwarded to the Department of Justice as part of a request to:<\/p>\n

1. Investigate Immigration Judges Dan Pelletier<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Earle Wilson<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, V. Stuart Couch<\/span><\/strong>, and Barry Pettinato<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (\u201cImmigration Judges\u201d))<\/p>\n

2. Immediately suspend the immigration judges from adjudicating cases pending the investigation;<\/p>\n

3. Review record of proceeding of all pro-se unaccompanied children and adult with children individuals ordered removed or granted voluntary departure by Immigration Judges since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2014.<\/p>\n

4. Order the sua sponte reopening of removal orders where the review of the record of proceedings demonstrates the immigration judge deprived pro se individual of the right to apply for asylum or other relief, and<\/p>\n

5. Refer to the appropriate law enforcement authorities for criminal prosecution upon finding that any of the immigration judges knowingly and systematically deprived unaccompanied children or adults with children of their right to apply for asylum or other relief.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bryan Johnson, Apr. 20, 2018\u00a0–\u00a0FOIA results: evidence of Immigration Judge V. Stuart Couch\u2019s shocking prejudgment of all domestic violence asylum claims “At the bottom, readers will find the all of the decisions of Immigration Judge V. Stuart Couch that resulted … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232175],"tags":[243877,243878,243879,243880,243881],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-immigration","tag-barry-pettinato","tag-earle-wilson","tag-immigration-judges-for-knowingly-depriving-children-of-right-to-apply-asylum","tag-judge-dan-pelletier","tag-v-stuart-couch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kohan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}