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This story came out of nowhere, and I knew immediately that the good people of Ricochet would be happy to hear it: Court-Ordered Deportations Surge After Trump Ends Obama-era Delay Tactics

Government data shows the Trump administration has already shifted the “culture” of immigration attorneys, who used to have more tools under the Obama administration to delay court decisions on whether to remove illegal immigrants, but are now being forced to push for a final verdict more quickly. Under Obama, immigration attorneys were more likely to leave cases for illegal immigrants in limbo, thus preventing them from ever ruling on whether they needed to be removed from the U.S. An official from the Executive Office for Immigration Review explained to the Washington Examiner that attorneys would push for an administrative closure, or a pause in the proceedings before an administrative judge.

“Rather than getting [a decision on removal proceedings] … Instead it created this culture of seeking continuance to try to build up a request for prosecutorial discretion for administrative closure, and so it had a ripple effect,” the EOIR official said.

A report released by the Center for Immigration Studies earlier this year said the Obama era closed up to 200,000 deportation cases by using administrative closure.

Honestly, that’s pretty frightening. A fifth of a million illegals were let back into society, merely because of some lawyer’s parlor trick that had almost nothing to do with the law. Little changes by our President can make big differences.

But statistics provided by EOIR show that since President Trump took office, total orders of removal and final decisions issued by an immigration judge have increased. From February to the end of September, immigration judges issued 100,000 final decisions on cases — and increase of 16 percent over the same period in 2016. The total number of removal orders increased 29 percent.

That, my friends, is winning. find the bottleneck or loophole, and fix it. The stream opens back up. This is how you make huge changes with little tweaks. You don’t have to write fat laws or Executive Orders that Leftists (doing judge-shopping) can shut down; just find out where the previous administration tied thing up, and untie it.

And since Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum to all immigration judges, court administrators, attorney advisors and judicial law clerks, and immigration court staff in July, the EOIR official said there has already been a change in how continuances are used. The six-page memo reminded immigration judges when administrative closures should actually be used.

“[T]he delays caused by granting multiple and lengthy continuances, when multiplied across the entire immigration court, exacerbate already crowded immigration dockets,” the memo said.

Matthew Kolken, an immigration lawyer, said …[snip]…”President Trump’s administration is now actively moving those cases back to the front burner of the stove and turning the heat back on so that deportation hearings may be scheduled for those who received a temporary reprieve,” he said.

Just because we don’t see changes happening, doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Remember, the MSM is doing all they can — trust me, they’re putting in overtime — to keep you from getting any good news from this Administration. This is also why Trump Tweets — he can’t get the good news to you any other way!

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  1. Goldwaterwoman Thatcher

    It’s extremely annoying that the concentration from the media seems to be over personalities and disagreements between politicians rather than having adult conversations over what is actually taking place, policy-wise, in the government. Also, we get very little international news. I find myself going to the BBC for international news. They are slightly to the left, but I give them credit for covering the world far better than our own networks and cable. Thank you for pointing out what is actually happening.

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    • November 12, 2017, at 4:39 PM PST
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  2. JcTPatriot Inactive
    JcTPatriot

    Goldwaterwoman (View Comment):
    It’s extremely annoying that the concentration from the media seems to be over personalities and disagreements between politicians rather than having adult conversations over what is actually taking place, policy-wise, in the government. Also, we get very little international news. I find myself going to the BBC for international news. They are slightly to the left, but I give them credit for covering the world far better than our own networks and cable. Thank you for pointing out what is actually happening.

    My pleasure, my friend. It is getting more difficult to find any real news on TV any more. On the Internet, Drudge Report helps a lot, since as a news aggregator he pulls in news from all over the world, and has links at the bottom of the page to news sites all over the world.

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    • November 12, 2017, at 5:27 PM PST
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  3. SkipSul Coolidge
    SkipSulJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Thanks for bringing this up. Very fascinating.

    Reminds me how Elaine Chao, in the last Bush admin, very quietly went around busting union heads under perfectly normal corruption charges – did wonders to deal with union racketeering. Never heard a thing about it in the media, but it was sure damned effective.

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    • November 12, 2017, at 6:21 PM PST
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  4. JcTPatriot Inactive
    JcTPatriot

    SkipSul (View Comment):
    Reminds me how Elaine Chao, in the last Bush admin, very quietly went around busting union heads under perfectly normal corruption charges – did wonders to deal with union racketeering. Never heard a thing about it in the media, but it was sure damned effective.

    She was one of my favorites under Bush. Never went running for the cameras, just took care of business as Labor Chief. I still admire her, and Trump must have liked her too, because she’s now the Secretary of Transportation.

    I need to check on her soon, see what she’s up to these days. I’ll bet she’s Making America Great Again!

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    • November 12, 2017, at 6:26 PM PST
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  5. Kevin Schulte Member

    JcTPatriot (View Comment):

    SkipSul (View Comment):
    Reminds me how Elaine Chao, in the last Bush admin, very quietly went around busting union heads under perfectly normal corruption charges – did wonders to deal with union racketeering. Never heard a thing about it in the media, but it was sure damned effective.

    She was one of my favorites under Bush. Never went running for the cameras, just took care of business as Labor Chief. I still admire her, and Trump must have liked her too, because she’s now the Secretary of Transportation.

    I need to check on her soon, see what she’s up to these days. I’ll bet she’s Making America Great Again!

    The thing I can’t reconcile is, who she is married to. Can’t Trump unleash her on her husband. Bust his chops Elaine ! please ?

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    • November 12, 2017, at 6:50 PM PST
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  6. SkipSul Coolidge
    SkipSulJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Kevin Schulte (View Comment):

    JcTPatriot (View Comment):

    SkipSul (View Comment):
    Reminds me how Elaine Chao, in the last Bush admin, very quietly went around busting union heads under perfectly normal corruption charges – did wonders to deal with union racketeering. Never heard a thing about it in the media, but it was sure damned effective.

    She was one of my favorites under Bush. Never went running for the cameras, just took care of business as Labor Chief. I still admire her, and Trump must have liked her too, because she’s now the Secretary of Transportation.

    I need to check on her soon, see what she’s up to these days. I’ll bet she’s Making America Great Again!

    The thing I can’t reconcile is, who she is married to. Can’t Trump unleash her on her husband. Bust his chops Elaine ! please ?

    Frustrated as I am with Congress as a whole, I wouldn’t want McConnell’s job for all the world. Herding cats would be easier than wrangling votes out of a bunch of prima-donnas, half of whom seem to think that they should be President. Under the circumstances, I actually cut McConnell a helluva lot of slack.

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    • November 12, 2017, at 7:35 PM PST
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  7. Gary Robbins Reagan

    It is good news that the Judicial system is working quicker. I hope that we find a legislative solution which give DACA kids legal status.

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    • November 12, 2017, at 7:42 PM PST
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  8. JcTPatriot Inactive
    JcTPatriot

    SkipSul (View Comment):

    Kevin Schulte (View Comment):

    JcTPatriot (View Comment):

    SkipSul (View Comment):
    Reminds me how Elaine Chao, in the last Bush admin, very quietly went around busting union heads under perfectly normal corruption charges – did wonders to deal with union racketeering. Never heard a thing about it in the media, but it was sure damned effective.

    She was one of my favorites under Bush. Never went running for the cameras, just took care of business as Labor Chief. I still admire her, and Trump must have liked her too, because she’s now the Secretary of Transportation.

    I need to check on her soon, see what she’s up to these days. I’ll bet she’s Making America Great Again!

    The thing I can’t reconcile is, who she is married to. Can’t Trump unleash her on her husband. Bust his chops Elaine ! please ?

    Frustrated as I am with Congress as a whole, I wouldn’t want McConnell’s job for all the world. Herding cats would be easier than wrangling votes out of a bunch of prima-donnas, half of whom seem to think that they should be President. Under the circumstances, I actually cut McConnell a helluva lot of slack.

    Agreed. Imagine if you had Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, AND John McCain to cajole and beg for their votes. It must be absolutely the worst feeling in the world to walk in to some conference room and see McCain that smug bastard sitting there, knowing he is going to shoot down everything you say, and then watch him go running to Chuck Schumer and tell him everything you just said.

    Probably going home to Elaine is his sanity check of the day.

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    • November 12, 2017, at 8:12 PM PST
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  9. Susan Quinn Contributor

    Great post, Patriot. We don’t hear these stories, and this one is very encouraging. Thanks!

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    • November 13, 2017, at 8:42 AM PST
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  10. Old Bathos Moderator

    Continuances even for illegals who fail to show up in court made the system a joke. The fact that just following law and procedure is making such a difference is yet another indication of the degree of perverse lawlessness of the Obama years.

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    • November 13, 2017, at 4:13 PM PST
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  11. Hypatia Inactive

    Great post , @jctpatriot! Thank you for the reporting on our Wins!

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    • November 13, 2017, at 5:26 PM PST
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  12. Mrs. Ink Member

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    It is good news that the Judicial system is working quicker. I hope that we find a legislative solution which give DACA kids legal status.

    DACA people have a legal status-they are illegal aliens. They should return to their home countries and use the educations they stole from American taxpayers to make their home countries livable, just, and prosperous.

    Do you think that bank robbers’ children should get to keep their parents’ ill-gotten gains?

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    • November 13, 2017, at 10:07 PM PST
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  13. JcTPatriot Inactive
    JcTPatriot

    Mrs. Ink (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    It is good news that the Judicial system is working quicker. I hope that we find a legislative solution which give DACA kids legal status.

    DACA people have a legal status-they are illegal aliens. They should return to their home countries and use the educations they stole from American taxpayers to make their home countries livable, just, and prosperous.

    Do you think that bank robbers’ children should get to keep their parents’ ill-gotten gains?

    “DACA kids legal status” is Leftist dog-whistle for “Amnesty”.

    I love your comment, Mrs. Ink.

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    • November 14, 2017, at 6:19 PM PST
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