Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy
Book by Banks Miller, Linda Camp Keith and Jennifer Holmes, University of Texas at Dallas and University of Colorado, respectively
Reviewed by Cosmas Ukachukwu Ikegwuruka, University of Newcastle
Fall 2016
Cosmas Ukachukwu Ikegwuruka reviews three books: Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy; Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by the Department of Homeland Security; and Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases, by Banks Miller, Linda Camp Keith and Jennifer Holmes. The books illuminate the processes by which immigration judges decide asylum cases, especially in the face of claims that such decisions are largely arbitrary. The reviewer explores how subjective factors, as well as crushing caseloads, limited support, and a lack of independence from the US Department of Justice influence how immigration judges decide asylum cases.
Read the book review at https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12278