The Biden administration has effectively provided “mass amnesty” by discreetly canceling asylum hearings for hundreds of thousands of migrants. Make no mistake about it. What the Biden administration is doing is illegal.
More than 350,000 migrant asylum claims have been “terminated without a decision on the merits of their asylum claim” by the Biden administration since 2022, according to a new report from the New York Post, which cites U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. According to reports, illegal immigrants’ asylum petitions are dismissed if they have no criminal record or are not judged a threat to the United States.
While migrants are not awarded asylum, they are not denied it. In addition, their asylum cases are closed without a ruling on the merits of their asylum claim. As a result, they are removed from the legal system and are no longer compelled to check in with authorities. They can reside in the United States without fear of deportation.
Obama did something similar. He told the immigration judge, who works not in the judicial branch but in the executive branch, not to issue bench warrants for illegals who don’t show up for their deportation hearing. And the reality is that no one shows up for their hearing. Obama gave illegals de facto amnesty.
According to the Post, 102,550 migrants were allowed to stay in the United States after their asylum petitions were dismissed in 2022. The total reportedly increased to 149,305 last year. According to the figures, 113,843 illegal aliens’ asylum cases were terminated during the first four months of 2024. In contrast, there were supposedly 18,119 incidents in 2021, 4,730 in 2020, and 4,746 in 2019.
“This is just a massive amnesty under the guise of prosecutorial discretion,” Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies, a former immigration judge, told the New York Post. “You’re basically allowing people who don’t have a right to be in the United States to be here indefinitely.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELSince President Joe Biden took office in January 2020, 77% of asylum seekers have been permitted to stay in the country, according to The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a self-described “data gathering, data research, and data distribution organization at Syracuse University.”
TRAC discovered a backlog of approximately 3.6 million outstanding asylum cases.
According to the United States Department of Justice, there are only 725 immigration judges who handle millions of asylum cases.
The average wait period for illegal immigrants to have their cases heard by US Citizenship and Immigration Services is reportedly more than 6 years. Those awaiting a case to be heard by the Executive Office for Immigration Review face an average wait time of 4.3 years. That’s because the Biden administration has let over 11 million illegals into the country to roam around freely wherever they want, many of them committing violent crimes on innocent Americans.
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