…facility. On May 20, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced that ICE would close the Irwin facility. He also announced the closure of the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention…
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Virtually every time anyone proposes administrative reforms to the immigration system, someone in Congress calls it amnesty. The discussion at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) today, in which immigration policy…
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…offering administrative relief to them as a group. Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz recently reiterated that Congress needs to act: It is a mistake to think that administrative tools…
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Even as the push for legislative reform to our immigration system begins anew, it’s important that every tool to fix our outdated immigration system be employed, including administrative reform. While…
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…the United States, as compared to 14 percent of children with legal representation. Of the remaining unrepresented children, half had their cases put on hold through a process called “administrative…
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…CBP, and USCIS agents should not place individuals into removal proceedings who meet the above criteria. For those already IN immigration proceedings and who have been offered administrative closure under…
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…initiative has thus far led to “administrative closure” in 1,500 of the approximately 150,000 cases reviewed by government attorneys—a figure that led understandably concerned advocates to fear the government was…
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…eliminated a process known as “administrative closure,” where judges could take low-priority cases off of their dockets to focus on the cases which most needed their attention. He also prevented…
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…decision in the case. In reconsidering the decision, Sessions effectively eliminated judges’ use of administrative closure, a docket management tool. Sessions sent Castro-Tum’s case back to Judge Morley, noting that…
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…to finalize several rules related to immigration courts. These include an Executive Office for Immigration Review rule that revises appellate procedures and requirements for administrative closure, another that addresses practitioner…
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