BIA Drops Hammer on Aliens Filing Late Motions to Reopen and to Stay Removal Orders

As the Board of Immigration Appeals noted in 2017, there’s “an important public interest in the finality of immigration proceedings”. Despite that, for decades aliens have ignored removal orders, only to rush to the BIA once ICE showed up. After these recent BIA decisions, such aliens may find themselves out of luck — and the Board will definitely have fewer dilatory, late-filed motions to deal with.