Asylum analysis Matter of Chang (I & N 1989) If a law or policy isn’t inherently persecutive, one can’t demonstrate that it is persecutive simply with evidence that it is applied to all persons, including those who don’t agree with it—fact that a citizen of another country may not enjoy same const’l protections as a […]
Admissibility Applied first by consular officer considering visa issuance, but also by inspector at port of entry Individual who seeks to become an LPR through adjustment of status must be “admissible” 1. Does she qualify for an admissions category? IMMIGRANT—203 (mostly) Family-sponsored Immediate relatives of citizens—INA § 201(b)(2)(A) Children (def. INA § 101(b)(1)) Must be […]
Chapter 14 Transcription: Autoimmunity and Transplantation There are different kinds of autoimmunity, depending on the target organ and the type of immune response which is directed at that target organ. There are some forms of autoimmunity that involve T-cells destroying cells in an organ or tissue, they are doing the same thing they do when […]
Chapter 13: Allergy and hypersensitivity When people think about allergy they usually think about the sensitivity to cats, pollen, etc… and those fall under type I hypersensitivities and those are the ones that are mediated by IgE bound mast cells, but there are many other kinds of hypersensitivities or allergies, and those include those that […]
Chapter 12 transcription: Failure of Host defenses If there were only one serotype of pneumococcus, once you got exposed, pneumococcus would be history for you. But the post-translational modifications of the sugar structure of the coat of the pneumococcus is what gives you the 84 different serotypes. If you have antibodies that recognize one, they […]
Chapter 10: Dynamics of Adaptive Immunity (Transcription is incomplete because recorder stopped working) Recognition of pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) signals the cell through toll like receptors activate cells to make interferons, chemokines, cytokines, the lipid mediators such as prostaglandins and leukotrienes, and the activated cells travel from the site of infection to the local […]
Chapter 9: Humoral Immune Response What do B-cells need for activation? B-cells need their receptor crosslinked, they need a second signal coming from other molecules like B7 engaged and they need cytokines. The standard T-cell dependent antigens, and this chapter will distinguish between the 95 or more percent of T cell antigens from the T-cell […]
Chapter 8: T-Cell mediated Immunity Slide 1 – There are some errors on this, one really important error is it indicates that CTLs are only CD8, however TH1 cells are capable of lysing virally infected cells or tumors or allogenic cells expressing class II MHC antigens. CD4 TH2 cells are not cytolytic, TH17 are inflammatory […]
Refugee and Asylum Law Introduction to Political Asylum Two paths to getting into US as a refugee: through selection while overseas, usually from a refugee camp, or through filing a claim for asylum at the border or while inside the U.S. under the refugee statute or the torture statute. International obligations under the UN Refugee […]
National Security Grounds of Inadmissibility and Deportability – INA § 212(a)(3) The deportability ground is 237(a)(4)(B), but it just reroutes you to the descriptions in the inadmissibility grounds, 212(a)(3). Unlike criminal deportation grounds, where the issue is whether the conviction fits a legal category, security deportations are very factual – what does the gov. reasonably […]
