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ABA Journal Article on “Asylum Logjam”

By immigrationprof

The October 2005 ABA Journal (p.18) has a story titled “Asylum Logjam: Streamlined Immigration Cases Are Flooding Federal Appeals Courts” by Richard Acello.

http://www.abanet.org/journal/redesign/10nimm.html

The article reports that in the last four years, appeals filed in the federal courts to BIA decisions are up 515 percent in no small part due to the Department of Justice’s streamlioning procedures designed to reduce backlogs. Marshall Fitz, Associate Director of Advocacy with teh American Immigration Lawyers Association, is quoted as saying that the streamling has been an “administrative disaster,” creating a flood of appeals to the federal courts..