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    Sessions to review practice used by immigration judges to set aside cases indefinitel

    Sessions to review practice used by immigration judges to set aside cases indefinitely

    By Jake Gibson | Fox News
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    January 5, 2018

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions is launching a review of a docket practice that has been used by immigration judges to set aside cases indefinitely, senior Justice Department officials tell Fox News.

    The practice, known as "administrative closure," has the effect of giving the subjects of those cases permission to remain in the U.S. and keep any benefits they have been given such as a work authorization.

    Sessions has certified one such case for his personal review. This allows him to consider the factors of the case and, according to senior DOJ officials, "render a decision that is binding on immigration courts, and everyone across the federal government writ large."

    Sessions could, in this way, potentially end the practice of administrative closures.

    The authority Sessions is employing is spelled out in the statute of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Senior DOJ officials note that the same authority has been used multiple times by previous attorneys general, including Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Michael Mukasey, Alberto Gonzales and John Ashcroft.

    There are currently 350,000 immigration cases that are administratively closed. The Obama administration closed more than 180,000 pending immigration court cases without a final decision in just four years, more than were closed in the previous 22 years combined.

    Sessions has sent a letter to the parties of the case under review and the Department of Homeland Security, asking a number of questions. Senior DOJ officials told Fox News the attorney general plans to use the answers to help inform his decision.

    Among those questions is whether the judges and decision-makers "have the authority, under any statute, or regulation, or delegation of authority from the Attorney General, to order administrative closure in a case?"

    Sessions also asks what actions should be taken regarding administratively closed cases if he were to determine that judges and the appeals board do not have that authority.

    The attorney general has given the parties until Feb. 2 to file their responses.

    There is currently a backlog of roughly 650,000 immigration cases -- a decision to end the administrative closure practice could add 350,000 cases to that pile.

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    Good!!

    Get them all out of here on the earliest possible date.

    This is so disgusting. Congress needs to immediately open a Congressional investigation of the immigration court and deportation process presently housed in the US DOJ. People have violated their oaths, violated their jobs, and deliberately usurped our laws through their employment with the US Department of Justice. This process needs to be taken completely out of a DOJ the American People who have at least 2 brain cells still connected can no longer trust or rely upon to protect our country, our laws, our Constitution, our jobs, our rights, or our lives. This isn't the fault of Jeff Sessions, this is the fault of bribed crooks who have been appointed and hired as immigration judges and prosecutors by former DOJ's to destroy our country.

    The deportation hearing couldn't be simpler. It's a requirement to VERIFY two questions:

    1. are you a citizen of the US, yes or no
    2. do you have valid unexpired documents to be in the US, yes or no
    3. if no and no, then out you go

    It's that simple. No pity party, no sob story, no but, but, but, waaaaaa, waaaaaa, waaaaaa.

    Your situation is not our problem, and you are not our responsibility.

    PERIOD.
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    This is not surprising. After following Jeff Sessions career for over a decade, I fully expected him to do everything within his power to get the DOJ right on all immigration related issues. Seems he's not only getting the DOJ on track for the Trump administration, he's also attempting to correct some of the Obama era DOJ mistakes as well.

    I can still remember the frustration I felt when the news about the many illegal immigrant cases that were administratively closed during Obama's last four years went public.

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