EOIR experiments with providing pre-recorded rights advisals at master calendar hearings

Original Date Announced
July 3, 2019
EOIR experiments with using pre-recorded rights advisals at respondents' first court hearing, in lieu of having advisals provided by the IJ and translated by a court interpreter.
[ID #210]
FAQ Document Provided to Pro Se Respondents Video Transcript- Non-detained immigrants Video Transcript - Detained Immigrants
Subsequent Trump-Era and Court Action(s)
- September 5, 2019
  SF Chronicle: Confusion, delays as videos replace interpreters at immigrants’ hearings
  
  EOIR begins replacing interpreters at master calendar hearings with prerecorded video advisals. The videos have been rolled out in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York.
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- June 9, 2020
  Trump officials cut immigration court interpreters after misstating costs, report finds
  
  SF Chronicle reports that after a rocky rollout of the videos in courts in four cities, the Justice Department abandoned plans to expand the videos nationwide and their use is fading out.
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- June 9, 2020
  Audit of the EOIR’s Fiscal Year 2019 Financial Management Practices
  
  The DOJ OIG released an audit of EOIR's financial management practices, identifying “weaknesses in EOIR's budget planning process regarding its ability to track and forecast rising interpreter contract costs, which adversely affected EOIR’s budgeting of other financial resource needs.”
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Not in effect

Status: Reported Rescinded

Trump Administration Action: Change in Practice

Subject Matter: Hearings and Adjudications

Agencies Affected: EOIR

Pre Trump-Era Policies

Trump administration ending in-person interpreters at immigrants’ first hearings
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