Posted on 05/18/2018 4:18:32 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a directive on Thursday that places limits on a tool commonly used by immigration judges and could put hundreds of thousands of deportation cases that are essentially closed back on federal court dockets.
The move, issued in an interim decision, is unlikely to reopen all the cases. But Mr. Sessions said that immigration courts could not put such cases on indefinite hold by using a practice known as administrative closure, which temporarily removes a case from a judge’s calendar and delays a proceeding that could remove an immigrant from the country.
Immigration judges “do not have the general authority to suspend indefinitely immigration proceedings by administrative closure,” he wrote in the decision, and the practice “effectively resulted in illegal aliens remaining indefinitely in the United States without any formal legal status.”
The move injects fresh uncertainty into the lives of undocumented immigrants living in the United States, and some critics say the decision could lead to their deportation before they could gain legal status.
“Sessions is using his authority as attorney general to turn the immigration courts into a deportation assembly line, with ICE officers waiting at the exits with open handcuffs in hand,” said David W. Leopold, who oversees the immigration law group at Ulmer & Berne, referring to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Mr. Sessions, an immigration hard-liner, said that the directive paved the way for such court cases that had been “put ‘out of sight, out of mind’” to return to dockets in courts across the country. From October 2011 to last September, 215,285 cases were administratively closed.
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HOORAY Jeff Sessions. Tactics of totalitarian judges ALERT!
The Justice Department said Mr. Sessions’s opinion eliminated the “unfettered use” of administrative closures and better aligned the immigration system with the rule of law.
The level of bleating from the lefty lawyers tells me that this will be an effective tactic.
I'll try not to lose too much sleep worrying about the "uncertainty" in the invaders' lives.
Most Immigration court matters for illegals should be simple:
“Mr/Mrs Sanchez, do you have a current, valid visa or green card? No? Is there some legal reason you are in the USA that government officials are unaware of? No???”
“I hereby sentence you to a term of incarceration of (maximum allowed by the applicable law that has been violated) hereby suspended if you agree to immediate deportation to your native country without option of further appeal. What will it be? Deportation? Or prison THEN deportation???”
NEXT!!!
You just know the Slimes would put their “oh the poor things are being denied justice “ spin on this.
with ICE officers waiting at the exits with open handcuffs in hand,”
God Bless Sessions... there IS hope...
“The move injects fresh uncertainty into the lives of undocumented immigrants living in the United States, and some critics say the decision could lead to their deportation before they could gain legal status.”
O.K., then. Let’s “inject” some “certainty” into the lives of these invaders: boot them out pronto.
“Sessions is using his authority as attorney general to turn the immigration courts into a deportation assembly line, with ICE officers waiting at the exits with open handcuffs in hand,” said David W. Leopold, who oversees the immigration law group at Ulmer & Berne, referring to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
Bravo.
:: Sessions is using his authority as attorney general to turn the immigration courts into a deportation assembly line, with ICE officers waiting at the exits with open handcuffs in hand ::
And this is a bad thing...how?
As an example of just how mentally diseased the liberals have become, they see this as a bad thing. But this is EXACTLY why the immigration courts were established. "Prove to us that you should be here or get out!"
Once someone goes to immigration court they should come out of there with either permission to stay or in handcuffs on a bus to the border.
No more catch and release. Either catch and deport or catch and execute (I have little mercy for those who attack my country).
Immigration judges “do not have the general authority to suspend indefinitely immigration proceedings by administrative closure,” he wrote in the decision, and the practice “effectively resulted in illegal aliens remaining indefinitely in the United States without any formal legal status.”
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Notice the correct use of the term “illegal aliens.” They aren’t immigrants.
About time! Why did such a simple, common-sense ruling take 16 months?
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