Migrants assigned to Boston’s fast-track program are more likely to be ordered deported, less likely to be represented by an attorney, and less likely to prevail in an asylum case compared to those who are funneled into Boston’s regular immigration court, the report found. A key problem, the report concluded, is that migrants assigned to the new program struggle to secure legal representation within an expedited timeline of 300 days to have their cases decided.”
Moreover, fewer than 4,000 out of 20,000 cases examined by the . And the vast majority of those completed cases either ended in a removal order or were dismissed, leaving the migrants in an undocumented limbo.
The authors of the Harvard report wrote in a letter to the Biden administration.
The Dedicated Docket in Boston is one of 11 fast-tracked immigration programs set up by the Biden administration in major cities. It is also the country’s biggest.
KJ