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		<title>Questions and Answers about Immigration Bonds at the Northwest Detention Center</title>
		<link>http://rachelgame.net/2012/02/questions-and-anwers-about-immigration-bonds-at-the-northwest-detention-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Game</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an immigration attorney in the Pacific Northwest of the United States I often have clients who are detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. In most of my detained cases, my client are released from custody after paying an immigration bond. These are some of the most common questions and answers about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a new law about waivers for the spouses for U.S. Citizens?</title>
		<link>http://rachelgame.net/2012/02/department-of-homeland-security-proposes-new-regulations-to-adjudicate-i-601-waivers-in-the-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Game</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immediate relatives of U.S. citizens may soon benefit from a proposed change in how I-601 waivers for unlawful presence are adjudicated. What is an I-601 Waiver? An I-601 waiver is an application used to overcome an immigrant&#8217;s inadmissibility as a legal resident. There are many grounds of inadmissibility such as prior immigration violations, criminal convictions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A short Q &amp; A  for non-citizens charged with a crime.</title>
		<link>http://rachelgame.net/2012/02/a-short-q-a-for-non-citizens-charged-with-a-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://rachelgame.net/2012/02/a-short-q-a-for-non-citizens-charged-with-a-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Game</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people would be surprised to learn that the Obama administration is deporting non U.S. citizens at record levels. In fact President Obama has resided over 1.06 million as of September 12,2011 compared to the 1.57 million deportations in President G.W. Bush&#8217;s two full presidential terms. The rise in removals can largely be attributed to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Rule Cancellation for witnessing domestic violence between parents</title>
		<link>http://rachelgame.net/2012/02/special-rule-cancellation-for-witnessing-domestic-violence-between-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://rachelgame.net/2012/02/special-rule-cancellation-for-witnessing-domestic-violence-between-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Game</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A young mother recently was granted her application for Special Rule Cancellation INA 240A(b)(2)  based on witnessing domestic violence between her legal permanent resident (LPR) step-father and her undocumented mother when she was a child. The Immigration Judge in Portland Oregon found that years of being exposed to domestic violence met the standard for being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICE Overreaches Mandatory Detention Statute</title>
		<link>http://rachelgame.net/2011/01/ice-overreaches-mandatory-detention-statute/</link>
		<comments>http://rachelgame.net/2011/01/ice-overreaches-mandatory-detention-statute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Game</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The law that establishes that ICE can hold a person in immigration custody without the opportunity for bond is termed &#8220;mandatory detention&#8221;. This law found in section 236(c) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act mandates that the Attorney General shall take an alien into custody after having committed one of the enumerated offenses described in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detention without Charge; and I thought Zimbabwe was bad.</title>
		<link>http://rachelgame.net/2010/11/detention-without-charge-and-i-thought-zimbabwe-was-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://rachelgame.net/2010/11/detention-without-charge-and-i-thought-zimbabwe-was-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Game</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving home this week I heard on NPR that the Obama administration is moving towards supporting legislation codifying indefinite detention of suspected terrorists. I am disappointed beyond words that the United States government is attempting to legitimize the suspension of habeas corpus as a response to the &#8220;war on terror&#8221;. The principal of habeas corpus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninth Circuit &#8211; CIMT and Cancellation Eligibility</title>
		<link>http://rachelgame.net/2010/11/ninth-circuit-cimt-and-cancellation-eligibility/</link>
		<comments>http://rachelgame.net/2010/11/ninth-circuit-cimt-and-cancellation-eligibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Game</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 2, 2010 LOZANO ARREDONDO v. HOLDER Following the rather disastrous BIA decision Matter of Cortez immigration attorneys have been holding their breath for a Ninth Circuit decision addressing the issue. Cortez is important because it dramatically changed who is eligible for non LPR cancellation of removal (application EOIR-42B) through a flawed statutory interpretation of INA 237(a)(2)(A)(i). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9th Circuit SAAVEDRA- FIGUEROA v. HOLDER</title>
		<link>http://rachelgame.net/2010/11/9th-circuit-saavedra-figueroa-v-holder-we-decline-to-remand-this-case-simply-to-allow-the-government-to-go-on-a-fishing-expedition/</link>
		<comments>http://rachelgame.net/2010/11/9th-circuit-saavedra-figueroa-v-holder-we-decline-to-remand-this-case-simply-to-allow-the-government-to-go-on-a-fishing-expedition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Game</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 5, 2010 SAAVEDRA- FIGUEROA V. HOLDER ( 9th Cir. 2010) http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/11/05/05-75210.pdf I thought this was a well reasoned and pragmatic  opinion written by Judge Callahan.  I particularly liked the part of the opinion when the Court refuses to remand simply to allow the government to introduce evidence to supplement the  record of conviction that was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Withholding of removal granted to schizophrenic woman</title>
		<link>http://rachelgame.net/2010/11/withholding-granted-to-schizophrenic-woman/</link>
		<comments>http://rachelgame.net/2010/11/withholding-granted-to-schizophrenic-woman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Game</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 1, 2010 Tacoma, Washington Immigration Judge Teresa Scala granted withholding to a 31 year old Mexican woman, Ms. OG, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2006. The Immigration Judge held that Respondent established that &#8220;poor Mexican women with chronic mental illness&#8221;  is a particular social group. The Department of Homeland Security had been seeking [...]]]></description>
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