What Do the Attorney General’s Decisions Vacating Matter of A-B- and Matter of L-E-A- Mean for Your Cases?
What Do the Attorney General’s Decisions Vacating Matter of A-B- and Matter of L-E-A- Mean for Your Cases?
On June 16, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued two precedential decisions — Matter of A-B-, 28 I&N Dec. 307 (A.G. 2021) and Matter of L-E-A-, 28 I&N Dec. 304 (A.G. 2021) — vacating Trump-era attorney general decisions that were designed to restrict access to asylum. The new decisions instruct adjudicators to return to following precedent that […]