More than Three-Quarters of Aliens in Immigration Court Get to Stay
The Biden administration has effectively dismantled all aspects of immigration enforcement
By Andrew R. Arthur on March 4, 2022
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University has published a report captioned “Outcomes of Deportation Proceedings in Immigration Court” through January 2022. It shows that so far in FY 2022 (October 2021-January 2022), just 23.2 percent of respondents in removal proceedings in which a decision has been issued were ordered removed or granted voluntary departure (VD), while 76.8 percent were allowed to stay. The Biden administration has now dismantled all aspects of immigration enforcement, setting itself up for major congressional backlash.
Background. By way of comparison, in the last fiscal year before the Covid-19 pandemic, FY 2019, 72.1 percent of respondents were ordered removed or granted VD, while fewer than 28 percent were granted relief or otherwise allowed to remain in the United States at the end of their removal proceedings.
Things were not terribly different in the early days of the Obama administration. In President Obama’s first full fiscal year, FY 2010, 70.6 percent of all removal proceedings ended with an order of removal or grant of VD, while in 29.4 percent of cases, the respondent was allowed to stay.
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