Rising Number of Deportation Cases Automatically Dismissed Over Failure to Provide Key Documents: Report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : After handing over that notice, CBP is required to make sure the court receives an electronic copy of the document, according to TRAC.
50% : By January 2022, more than 47,000 were yet to report to ICE, according to official data received by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
46% : CBP and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, did not respond to requests for comment.
45% : "The vast majority of the matters dismissed were legitimate cases that ICE spent taxpayer dollars investigating, filing, and prosecuting.
44% : While TRAC was unable to find where exactly the failure was occurring within CBP, it discovered that several immigration courts are responsible for the bulk of the dismissals.
32% : If CBP fails to submit the paperwork, the court doesn't have jurisdiction to hear the case, and must dismiss it.
32% : The dismissals mean asylum seekers "now have no path to a work authorization card, possibly no path to asylum (unless they have an attorney who will file affirmatively), plus it's just creating a mess for everyone," Austin Kocher, a researcher at TRAC, wrote on Twitter.
30% : Matt O'Brien, an immigration judge dismissed by the Biden administration, said during his final two months on the bench that ICE dropped 99 percent of its deportation cases that were pending on his docket.

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