Sam Seder
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Jeff Sessions Empowers ICE To Overrule Immigration Judges
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June 7, 2018
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"Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the nation's immigration judges to end their practice of temporarily removing cases from their dockets without issuing decisions.
Immigrant advocates say the move is part of a broader strategy to influence the immigration courts, which fall under the purview of the Department of Justice, in order to hasten the removal of some immigrants.
As NPR's Joel Rose reports, the practice is known as "administrative closure."
"It's been a lifeline for tens of thousands of immigrants who are applying for visas or green cards, which can take years. So immigration judges will sometimes close their cases to let those applications play out, effectively putting deportations on hold.
"But critics say judges have allowed those immigrants to stay in the country longer than they should have.""*
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