It explains how the administration has allowed putatively removable aliens to remain by tanking their cases in immigration court.
Respectfully, ICE attorneys "Do justice" in any case by fairly and thoroughly litigating the issues therein and ensuring that any relief from removal granted by the immigration court is appropriate as a matter of law and discretion - not by dismissing or closing cases before such determinations are made.
The immigration courts are administrative tribunals within the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review, and to its credit EOIR publishes a lot of information about what's happening in those immigration courts on a webpage captioned "Workload and Adjudication Statistics".
Go to the link titled "New Cases and Total Completions", for example, and you will see that through the third quarter of FY 2024, the immigration courts received just over 1.5 million new cases, and completed more than 511,000 of them - nearly twice as many completions as in FY 2019.
As the committee report explains: "Under the Biden-Harris Administration, more than 700,000 illegal aliens have had their cases dismissed, terminated, or administratively closed, allowing those aliens to stay in the country indefinitely without facing immigration consequences".
In addition to ensuring that immigration judges do not adjudicate aliens' cases, the Biden-Harris Administration has worked to undo immigration judges' previous decisions by encouraging ICE attorneys to join motions to reopen cases.
In just the first nine months of fiscal year 2024, 31,191 motions to reopen were filed with the immigration courts, compared to an average of 17,920 motions to reopen during the Trump Administration - a 74 percent increase.
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