One of Three Deportation Requests are Rejected

By Elizabeth Llorente
Published November 09, 2010


MAY 28: Special agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol question a woman while her vehicle is searched after she was stopped heading into México at the Hidalgo border crossing in Hidalgo, Texas. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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MAY 28: Special agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol question a woman while her vehicle is searched after she was stopped heading into México at the Hidalgo border crossing in Hidalgo, Texas. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A growing number of judges are rejecting deportation requests by immigration officials, says a new report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

The report, based an analysis of immigration records between 1998 and 2010, says that in the last three months of fiscal year 2010 – in other words, July, August and September – immigration courts rejected one out of three requests to deport people.

The requests were made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more commonly known as ICE.

“This turndown rate is up from what it was – one out of every four – 12 months earlier,â€