Approximately 200,000 Deportation Cases Tossed By Immigration Judges Under Biden Administration, Report Says

By Danielle | Mar 25, 2024

According to a report released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, immigration judges have dismissed deportation cases for approximately 200,000 migrants because the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security failed to file the required paperwork before the court dates.

“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,” the New York Post reports.

The TRAC report, which includes data through February 2024, says, “these large numbers of dismissals and what then happens raise serious concerns,” according to the outlet.

“Since the beginning of the Biden administration, Immigration Judges have dismissed around 200,000 deportation cases due to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) not submitting the necessary Notice to Appear (NTA) to the Court before the scheduled hearing date. In the absence of a correctly filed NTA, the Court does not have the authority to proceed with the case, leaving many immigrants, frequently those seeking asylum, without a means to advance their legal situation,” Chuck Callesto writes.



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From the New York Post:

The nonpartisan research organization called it “troubling” that there was an “almost total lack of transparency on where and why these DHS failures occurred.”

“Equally troubling is the lack of solid information on what happened to these many immigrants when DHS never rectified its failure by reissuing and filing new NTAs to restart their Court cases,” the report notes.

Notices to appear, or NTAs, are issued when migrants are apprehended illegally crossing the border into the US.Migrants claiming asylum are assigned a hearing date — often years in advance — where they are offered the opportunity to explain to an immigration judge why they shouldn’t be deported.

But the NTA must also be filed with the court where the individual is told to appear for the hearing to take place.“Almost all Immigration Court cases are removal cases for which DHS must file an NTA for the case to go forward,” the TRAC report explains.Cases dismissed because of NTAs not being filed jumped when Biden took office, from 6,482 in 2020 to 33,802 in 2021.

“Am I the only one who thinks this is intentional and not just incompetence?” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) questioned.



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A DHS "error" caused 200,000 deportations to be wiped.

Biden's DHS just never filed the Notice To Appear paperwork with the courts.

Am I the only one who thinks this is intentional and not just incompetence?

4:59 PM · Mar 21, 2024




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NEW: In the latest border-related security lapse to rock the Biden admin, hundreds of thousands of deportation cases have been thrown out by immigration judges because the DHS failed to file the required NTA with the court. READ:



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In the latest border-related security lapse to rock the Biden administration, hundreds of thousands of deportation cases have been thrown out by immigration judges because the Department of Homeland...

6:00 PM · Mar 23, 2024

From Judicial Watch:

This is critical because, while immigration judges oversee cases that do not involve deportations, removal cases still account for the overwhelming majority of their workload. In fact, TRAC found that 97% of the over one million cases initiated so far this fiscal year, which began in October 2023, involve removals. Therefore, nearly all the cases that come before the nation’s immigration courts are deportation cases that require DHS to file an NTA. Simply put, the case dies if the federal agency fails to file the critical document. “Ten years ago, DHS’s failure to file an NTA before the scheduled first hearing was rare,” the university researchers found. “However, the frequency increased once Border Patrol agents and other DHS personnel were given access to the Immigration Court’s Interactive Scheduling System (ISS).” In typical government inefficiency fashion, DHS agents schedule immigration court hearings for dates prior to the issuance of an NTA. The agency responsible for protecting the nation blocks off the overwhelmed immigration court system’s slots by scheduling hearings that legally do not exist. “With Immigration Judges staring down 3.5 million pending immigration cases, every wasted hearing is a hearing that could have moved another case forward or resolved it,” the TRAC report points out.

Immigration courts in Houston, Texas and Miami, Florida have dismissed the largest amount of migrant deportation cases over DHS’s failure to issue an NTA, with 50% or more of their cases thrown out since fiscal year 2021. During the same period TRAC researchers found that courts in El Paso, Texas and Los Angeles, California also had high rates of dismissals with rates of 30% and 26 % respectively. Some jurisdictions were not as heavily impacted, according to the government figures included in the report. For instance, immigration courts in San Francisco, California threw out 4% of cases over NTAs, Newark, New Jersey 3% and Seattle, Washington 2%. Information identifying which DHS agency issued the NTAs was not provided to the Syracuse researchers, but they suspect most were created by Border Patrol agents, which means the filing agency is U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). “Troubling is the almost total lack of transparency on where and why these DHS failures occurred,” the report states. “Equally troubling is the lack of solid information on what happened to these many immigrants when DHS never rectified its failure by reissuing and filing new NTAs to restart their Court cases.”

Read the full TRAC report HERE.

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