IJs or Bureaucrats: Responsiveness of Immigration Judges to the U.S. Courts of Appeals

• In Event: Immigration and Human Rights

Brief Overview

We investigate the relative influence of the three branches over Immigration Judges’ decisions in asylum cases, employing matching techniques to track changes in similar cases across different administrations and circuits.

Authors

• Maureen Therese Stobb, Georgia Southern University

• Banks Prescott Miller, The University of Texas at Dallas

• Joshua Kennedy, Georgia Southern University