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A broken immigration court system

By Alliance Alert

National Center for Policy Analysis: "Many people do not realize that illegal aliens who are caught end up in immigration courts that are part of the Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). These courts are presided over by administrative judges; they are not Article III federal courts, says Hans A. von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former Justice Department official. According to Mark Metcalf, a former immigration judge: From 1996 to 2008, the United States allowed 1.8 million aliens (many of them here illegally) to remain free upon their promise to appear in court when their cases were scheduled to be heard, and 736,000 of them never showed up for their hearings. After 9/11, court evasion by illegal aliens exploded -- from 2002 to 2006, over 50 percent of all aliens summoned to court disappeared."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).