Aba Journal by Terry Carter 1/5/2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is challenging the authority of immigration judges to issue administrative closure -- the closing of cases without making a decision -- which allows immigrants to remain in the country without legal status, The Associated Press and Fox News report.
Immigration judges have increasingly relied on administrative closure in recent years, especially since the DOJ’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled in 2012 that neither the Department of Homeland Security nor the immigrants themselves could stop a judge from closing a case.
Immigration courts have a backlog of about 650,000 cases, as well as 350,000 that were administrative closures – more than half in of which were closed in four years under the Obama Administration and exceeding the total in the previous 22 years.
More:
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/sessions_to_challenge_immigration_judges_over_closure_of_cases
