https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/17/612200263/sessions-moves-to-curb-immigration-judges-authority

Sessions today ordered the end of Administrative Closures.

"Immigration judges and the Board have come to rely upon administrative closure without thoroughly explaining their authority to do so. Unlike the power to grant continuances, which the regulations expressly confer, immigration judges and the Board lack a general authority to grant administrative closure. No Attorney General has delegated such broad authority, and legal or policy arguments do not justify it. I therefore hold that immigration judges and the Board lack this authority except where a previous regulation or settlement agreement has expressly conferred it."

In his order, Sessions acknowledged that reactivating cases that are currently administratively closed "would likely overwhelm the immigration courts and undercut the administration of immigration laws." So he ordered all administratively closed cases to "remain closed unless DHS (Department of Homeland Security) or the respondent requests recalendaring."

Cant deport as many mexicans if they are scared to death of the orange cheeto and dont try to cross

Obama deported more illegal immigrants than Bush because the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement changed the way they define deportations. It changed sometime late in the W. Bush administration. The vast majority of people who get caught attempting to cross the border are now fingerprinted and formally deported. Before, those people were not counted as deportations.

Regardless, it's still hilarious to me that the #1 public policy proposal of the winning presidential campaign can be debunked by one graph:



Who would win? The entire basis of the President's number one public policy goal or one graphy boi?

Racism is a hell of a drug.

Wow! You read graphs differently than I do.

I see that when Obama took office the deportations dropped alarmingly. Now that Trump has taken office they are starting to rise again.
If we're really lucky we will get to see a graph that goes to 2018, and a graph that includes, the immigrants that have been stopped before entering the country. You know, like a graph that truly represents what Trump has been accomplishing.

Obama just put them on the treadmill to come back in. Who cares if he deported more if the border isn’t secure. It’s just wasted money and effort.

This post was edited by timmayX on May 28 2018 04:40pm

Did you graduate highschool?

those are just estimates, which in the case of illegal/undocumented people are naturally more uncertain than usual.

and lets not forget that obama increased the influx of legal immigration as well. lets also not forget that the children of the huge waves of latino immigrants from the 80s and 90s have US citizenship and are now beginning to enter the voting age population.
lets also not forget that the immigration levels from latin america and from mexico in particular have stagnated beginning in 2008 "thanks" to the financial crisis, not due to obama.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 28 2018 10:10pm

That graph is bullshit

Its based on the Census which doesnt properly measure any of what its supposed to

The graph shows a 90% confidence interval of the estimated number of illegal immigrants in the United States, not the number of deportations.



How many illegal immigrants do you think are in the United States?

[Posts Source showing immigration leveled off, clearly showing a trend] - Alex

"Wahhh those numbers might not be accurate because of collection" [missed trend] - The woosh tang clan.