Sessions Shuts Down Stealth Amnesty
WASHINGTON, May 19 -- The Immigration Reform Law Institute issued the following news release:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered an end to a longstanding practice of immigration judges (IJs): administratively closing cases to make them disappear from the docket. Immigration judges did this so often in past administrations that the procedure amounted to a vast amnesty-by-stealth for deportable aliens. When an alien's case is administratively closed, the alien gets to stay in . . .
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered an end to a longstanding practice of immigration judges (IJs): administratively closing cases to make them disappear from the docket. Immigration judges did this so often in past administrations that the procedure amounted to a vast amnesty-by-stealth for deportable aliens. When an alien's case is administratively closed, the alien gets to stay in . . .