Exhibit I for Reform of the Immigration Courts: The systemic problems with our immigration courts are dire
The immigration courts, housed in the Executive Office for Immigration Review in the Department of Justice, long have been criticized for bias, ineptitude, lack of resources, a huge backlog , and more. ABA, AILA, and other groups have called for independent Article I immigration courts. Contributing to the concerns, Nolan Rappaport writes for The Hill on the wide disparities between immigration judges in grants of asylum claims:
” If you are a person seeking asylum in the United States, the fact is whether or not you get to remain here depends on which immigration judge is assigned to hear your case, according to TRAC’s October 2020 report.
One judge is not like another. For instance, the denial rates of the judges in the New York immigration court ranged from 95 percent down to 3 percent.”
ImmigrationProf previously had reported on the latest TRAC report.
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