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Hon. Karen M. Donoso Stevens, Immigration Judge, Arlington Immigration Court

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About the Immigration Judge

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch appointed Karen M. Donoso Stevens to begin hearing cases in October 2016. Judge Donoso Stevens earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995 from the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor in 1999 from the Michigan State University College of Law. From 2010 to October 2016, she served as a senior attorney for the Office of the Chief Counsel, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in Arlington, Va. From 2007 through 2010, she served as an assistant chief counsel for the Office of the Chief Counsel, ICE, DHS, in Arlington, Va. From 2005 through 2006, she served as a staff attorney for the Children’s Project at the National Immigrant Justice Center, in Chicago. From 2001 through 2003, she served as juvenile diversion program director for the California Bar Foundation, Orange County, Calif. In 2001, she served as family services coordinator for the Children’s Bureau of Southern California, in Santa Ana, Calif. From 1999 through 2000, she served as an assistant state’s attorney for the Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office, in Cook County, Chicago. Judge Donoso Stevens is a member of the Illinois State Bar.

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    Doesn’t always listen to the facts or allow counsel to make arguments before denying motions. Doesn’t allow the opportunity for the case to properly be heard before making a decision.

    1 year ago
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    Knowledge of Facts / Conocimiento del caso

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    IJ Stevens is why I’m careful to not talk to much trash about ICE lawyers becoming immigration judges, because she’s awesome! She kicked me across the floor when she was an ICE prosecutor, but as an IJ she’s wonderful. Very smart and very fair, knows the law backwards and forwards. When my clients have lost in her courtroom, well…I’ve never gone away feeling like she was unjust or lazy.

    2 years ago

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