Paperwork. It’s a headache on good days, the bane of one’s existence on bad. But “i’s” must be dotted and “t’s” crossed — particularly when it comes to court systems.
It seems, however, that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has dropped the ball in recent years when it comes to i-dotting and t-crossing. And as a result, some 200,000 immigration court cases have been dismissed due to an administrative snarl. Granted, 200,000 is a drop in the bucket when you’re talking about millions of illegal crossings, but that’s still a pretty big drop.
Here’s what happened, according to a new report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which bills itself as “your source for comprehensive, independent and nonpartisan information about federal enforcement, staffing and spending”:
Approximately 200,000 deportation cases have been thrown out by Immigration Judges…
