Pleading to Protect: Holding Immigration Judges to Their Obligations to Respondents

In this new environment where Immigration Judges are increasingly more loyal to Executive Office for Immigration Review directives than to due process, practitioners should reconsider their default pleading practices. This practice alert suggests an alternative oral pleading and provides insight into how an alternative pleading practice can ensure that clients understand the grave nature of removal proceedings and the rights afforded to them by statute and regulation.