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Report: ‘U.S. Immigration System is Buckling Under Its Own Weight’

Bob Dane — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:44:49 +0000

Backlogs in immigration applications are undermining the integrity of the system, according to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). Immigration court backlogs now top 1.6 million cases, up from 1.1 million before the COVID pandemic, and more than double the caseload in fiscal year 2018. At U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) pending applications for green [...]

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House Democrats Take Aim at the Nation’s Immigration Courts

Preston Huennekens — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:57:01 +0000

House Democrats are taking aim at the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), which is the immigration court system of the United States. EOIR is an agency within the Department of Justice, making it unique in that it is not an “independent” Article III court, but instead a court system within the executive branch in [...]

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Immigration Courts Allowing More Migrants to Stay in U.S.

Bob Dane — Mon, 24 May 2021 14:28:58 +0000

Midway through fiscal year 2021, U.S. immigration courts are allowing significantly more illegal aliens to remain in this country. Of 68,962 deportation cases processed, only 42 percent resulted in removals, the lowest percentage since 1988. Court-ordered deportation rates during the previous four years ranged from 57-72 percent. On the current trajectory, court deportations this year [...]

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The U.S. Isn’t the World’s Asylum

Matt O'Brien — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:41:23 +0000

It is appropriate for Americans to empathize with people living in tough conditions. However, according to a 2018 Gallup poll, more than 750 million people worldwide would leave their home countries and move elsewhere if they could. And a sizeable number of those folks would like to come to the United States. But, as a [...]

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New BIA Filing Fee More than Reasonable

Matt O'Brien — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:11:33 +0000

At the end of last month, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), proposed an updated fee schedule that would require aliens subject to deportation orders to pay $1,000 to file an appeal. EOIR is the agency that oversees both the Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration appeals.) This action has provoked criticism from [...]

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Coronavirus, Lies and Immigration Video Hearings

Matt O'Brien — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:49:30 +0000

For months, open borders advocates have been complaining about the Trump administration conducting immigration hearings via a satellite video teleconferencing (VTC) platform. Although the U.S. Immigration Court has been using VTC for close to two decades, it recently ramped up the number of video hearings in order to respond to the overwhelming number of migrants [...]

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