Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a new directive to immigration judges Thursday telling them they can no longer shunt deportation cases off onto permanent wait-lists and leave illegal immigrants free to roam the U.S. Known as administrative closure, the wait-list move had become a favorite tactic of the Obama administration, serving to protect low-priority illegal immigrants from deportation.
Rather than pursue those cases, government lawyers would propose - and judges would grant - administrative closure, shipping more than 200,000 cases to the suspension list in what analysts said became a "De facto" amnesty.
Rather than order him deported in absentia, the immigration judge granted an administrative closure in the case, essentially giving the now-adult illegal immigrant a tentative pass.
When combined with some 690,000 other pending cases, the immigration court has more than 1 million cases awaiting rulings.
"Attorney General Sessions is doing what should have been done long ago, which is trying to ensure that illegal aliens are actually found deportable, then removed from the United States, rather than leaving them here in limbo, still illegal but living under color of law," said Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager for NumbersUSA, which pushes for stricter immigration limits.
For other migrants who didn't qualify for DACA but still had only low levels of criminal behavior, the Obama administration ordered Homeland Security not to lodge deportation cases against them, and ordered immigration judges to close out their cases without deporting them, when circumstances warranted.
The immigration council said Mr. Sessions was not an impartial arbiter and should not have used his attorney general powers to refer Mr. Castro-Tatum's case to himself for a final ruling.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/17/jeff-sessions-ends-obama-era-de-facto-court-amnest/
Rather than pursue those cases, government lawyers would propose - and judges would grant - administrative closure, shipping more than 200,000 cases to the suspension list in what analysts said became a "De facto" amnesty.
Rather than order him deported in absentia, the immigration judge granted an administrative closure in the case, essentially giving the now-adult illegal immigrant a tentative pass.
When combined with some 690,000 other pending cases, the immigration court has more than 1 million cases awaiting rulings.
"Attorney General Sessions is doing what should have been done long ago, which is trying to ensure that illegal aliens are actually found deportable, then removed from the United States, rather than leaving them here in limbo, still illegal but living under color of law," said Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager for NumbersUSA, which pushes for stricter immigration limits.
For other migrants who didn't qualify for DACA but still had only low levels of criminal behavior, the Obama administration ordered Homeland Security not to lodge deportation cases against them, and ordered immigration judges to close out their cases without deporting them, when circumstances warranted.
The immigration council said Mr. Sessions was not an impartial arbiter and should not have used his attorney general powers to refer Mr. Castro-Tatum's case to himself for a final ruling.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/17/jeff-sessions-ends-obama-era-de-facto-court-amnest/
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