Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 53 (2021)
Ghosts in America: Working Towards Building a Legal Framework for
Stateless Individuals in the United States
of world and could have negative impacts on economic cooperation
between the United States and other countries. 238 Furthermore, visa
sanctions are not the only tool available to the United States
government to encourage cooperation. 239 Examples of such alternative
measures include the issuance of a demarche (i.e., a formal diplomatic
request); holding a joint meeting with the country’s ambassador to the
United States, DOS, and ICE; providing notice of the United States
government’s intent to exercise visa sanctions to gain compliance; and
calling for inter-agency meetings to pursue withholding of aid other
funding. 240
2)
Order of supervision
If a stateless individual is unable to obtain legal status in the United
States, they cannot be lawfully deported from the United States. 241 In
these cases, an immigration judge has the discretion to release a
stateless individual under order of supervision. 242 Orders of supervision
are authorized under INA §241 and the regulatory authority is provided
in 8 C.F.R 241.5. 243 Under this program, if a detained noncitizen cannot
be removed within a reasonable time after receiving an order of
removal, the noncitizen must be released from detention. 244 Many
stateless individuals are released under an order of supervision. 245 To
comply with orders of supervision, they must check in regularly with
immigration officials, obtain advanced approval to travel beyond
specified times and distances, provide notices of change of address, and
continue to try to obtain travel documents, which most likely ends up
238. Recalcitrant Countries: Denying Visas to Countries that Refuse to Take
Back Their Deported Nationals Before the Comm. on Oversight and
Government Reform, supra note 229.
239. Recalcitrant, supra note 220.
240. Recalcitrant Countries: Denying Visas to Countries that Refuse to Take
Back Their Deported Nationals Before the Comm. on Oversight and Gov’t
Reform, supra note 229.
241. See Citizens of Nowhere, supra note 3, at 20.
242. Corgan, supra note 18.
243. See RUTGERS SCHOOL OF LAW-NEWARK IMMIGRANT RIGHTS CLINIC,
FREED BUT NOT FREE: A REPORT EXAMINING THE CURRENT USE OF
ALTERNATIVES TO IMMIGRATION DETENTION 5 (2012) [hereinafter
FREED BUT NOT FREE]; Immigration and Nationality Act §241; 8 U.S.C
§1231 (2018); 8 C.F.R 241.5.
244. See Immigration and Nationality Act §241; 8 U.S.C §1231(a)(3) (2018).
245. FREED BUT NOT FREE, supra note 243, at 19.
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