It's Not An Arrest Warrant

Challenging a Red Notice: What Immigration Attorneys Need to Know About INTERPOL [PDF], AILA Law Journal, volume 1, number 1, April 2019.

This was my 1000th piece at Heritage.

"The International Criminal Police Organization—officially ICPO-INTERPOL, commonly known simply as INTERPOL—plays an important role in international law enforcement, and its publications are often used in U.S. immigration and asylum cases. But neither INTERPOL nor its publications, such as its famous “Red Notice,” are well understood. This can lead attorneys to fail to appropriately challenge Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or immigration judge (IJ) assertions about INTERPOL that are often incorrect. For example, too often IJs uncritically defer to INTERPOL publications in their decisions, resulting in extended detention time or denials of bonds and other requests for immigration benefits, and in general causing serious damage to an individual’s U.S. immigration case."