More incompetence from the Biden Administration right here, and I gotta say, I'm not the least bit surprised.
Yes, that's 200,000 deportation cases - poof! - gone. Courts can't deport you; courts can't grant you asylum. Just an utter failure from the Biden Administration, which sadly has become the norm.
Immigration judges dismissed deportation cases against some 200,000 migrants under President Biden because the Department of Homeland Security failed to file the required paperwork before their court dates, according to a new report.
The DHS's failure to file thousands of notices to appear before scheduled hearing dates left courts without jurisdiction to handle deportation cases and rule on asylum claims, according to a report released Wednesday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
You'll be absolutely shocked to learn that this uptick in failed paperwork filing happened right around 2021.
Cases dismissed because of NTAs not being filed jumped when Biden took office, from 6,482 in 2020 to 33,802 in 2021.
The amount of no NTAs ballooned to 79,592 in 2022 before falling [to] 68,869 in 2023.
So far in 2024, 10,598 deportation cases have been dismissed because of no NTAs, according to the report.
Between 2014 and 2020, less than 1% of deportation cases were dismissed because of NTAs not being filed with courts.
In Biden's first three years in office, that figure was 8.4% of cases.
Terrible.
Just terrible.
Who knows which "asylum seekers" this 8.4% of dismissed cases encompasses. Could be anybody.
As for the excuse for this incompetence, because there's always an excuse:
The report noted that immigration courts in Houston and Miami were "clear standouts" in not having NTAs on file in time, with 50% or more of their deportation cases dismissed since 2021 because of no NTAs.
TRAC suggests that the problem may lie in Border Patrol agents and other DHS personnel being given authority to schedule immigration hearings on their own.
"Ten years ago, DHS's failure to file an NTA before the scheduled first hearing was rare," the report said. "However, the frequency increased once Border Patrol and other DHS personnel were given access to the Immigration Court's Interactive Scheduling System (ISS)."
"DHS's relatively recent access to the Court's scheduling system created a new administrative problem: DHS employees could schedule Immigration Court hearings sooner than the agency could file the NTA, and this could have negative consequences for both the Immigration Court and the immigrant respondents themselves," TRAC found. "Indeed, this is what happened."
I've got a crazy idea: Maybe if we actually had a border that kept people out, and a president who would punish those who broke in, we wouldn't have all these problems in our immigration system.
Just a thought.
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