Huge Decline in Percentage of Aliens Ordered Deported in FY 2021
And, in the number of cases immigration courts are completing; blame Biden and COVID
By Andrew R. Arthur on July 26, 2021
The latest report from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) on “Outcomes of Deportation Proceedings in Immigration Court” reveals that the percentage of aliens in proceedings who have been ordered removed has plummeted in FY 2021, while the percentage who were allowed to “stay” in the United States has soared. The Biden administration’s anti-ICE agenda is almost definitely to blame to a significant degree for the difference, but COVID also has played a role.
According to TRAC, thus far in FY 2021, just 40.9 percent of all case “outcomes” in immigration court were orders of removal, while the percentage of such outcomes in which aliens were allowed to stay—either because they were granted relief, or because their cases were terminated or were closed—has grown to 59.1 percent of the total.
In FY 2019, by comparison, 72.2 percent of outcomes were removal orders, whereas the percentage of outcomes in which the alien was allowed to stay was a mere 27.8.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Huge-Decline-Percentage-Aliens-Ordered-Deported-FY-2021
