…legal rights. It also recommends adopting and continuing practices like administrative closure—a case management tool that helps overburdened immigration judges temporarily remove a case from their docket. The DOJ recently…
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…new evidence and remands to an immigration judge to consider new evidence. Importantly, the DOJ continues its attack on administrative closure, a long-standing measure that allows judges to manage their…
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…This initiative has the potential to swell the immigration court backlog (currently at 730,000 cases) to over one million cases. Administrative closure is a docket-management tool which allows immigration judges…
Read More…Napolitano insisted, “This department is about enforcing the law that we have.” But concerning administrative fixes to our immigration system, Secretary Napolitano and the Obama Administrative should be taking their…
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…decision that dismantled another important docket management tool known as administrative closure, retired immigration judges and former members of the Board of Immigration Appeals have expressed concern about this most…
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…discretion exceeds 9%. As we previously reported, however, immigrants who are offered “administrative closure” must complete a number of steps before their cases are officially suspended. First, any immigrant found…
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…which makes these actions more about politics than policy. The floor votes to limit administrative action comes on the heels of the House Judiciary Committee’s approval of a bill to…
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…new reports examine in depth who these people are and how administrative actions would impact them. A report from the Pew Hispanic Center looks at the demographic characteristics of the…
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…any major immigration legislation—through the House have been thwarted, and as time goes on, more people push the White House to deliver some form of administrative relief, desperate to protect…
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…but in many cases the closures have resulted simply in the transfer of immigrants to other facilities, limiting the impact of the piecemeal closures. As a response, the American Immigration…
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