Tag: Board Of Immigration Appeals
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10th Circuit rules cognitively impaired man’s risk of lobotomy, mistreatment in Mexico not ‘torture’
The Denver-based federal appeals court concluded last month that a man’s risk of mistreatment or forced lobotomy in his native Mexico did not amount to “torture” that should shield him from deportation. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit noted that Javier Garcia-Botello’s request for protection under the Convention…
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Federal judge believes government would follow her orders on immigration detention ‘under normal circumstances’
A federal judge agreed on Thursday that she would allow a class of approximately 500 people in Colorado’s immigration detention to challenge the government’s refusal to set their bond, which she already found to be a likely violation of the law. At the same time, U.S. District Court Judge Regina M. Rodriguez said she was…