Immigration Lawyers Wait for Biden Administration to Fulfill Promises

Lawyers are cautiously optimistic that the Biden administration will be able to untangle the chaos of the immigration courts.

For four years, immigration lawyers such as Hasan Shafiqullah, Attorney-in-Charge at the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit, have been biding their time, waiting to file certain motions until a compassionate administration took charge.

“Under Trump, they were going so aggressively after anyone that they possibly could seek to deport, to deny anyone that they could deny, that anyone for whom we would need a discretionary decision made by Homeland Security, it could go either way,” said Shafiqullah. “So now we’re seeing, under Biden, a return to a much more measured approach.”

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