More than half a million immigrants did not appear for an immigration court hearing under former President Joe Biden.
In 2022, between the first year of the Biden administration and the end of December 2024, immigration judges issued an order to remove more than 507,000 people in the absence order, or those who did not appear for immigration hearings, according to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Research (CIS).
This number represents a 45% increase in such cases compared to the past seven years under former President Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s first term.
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Over half a million immigrants skipped immigration hearings during former President Joe Biden’s term. (Photo: Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency by Getty Images | Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“These over 500,000 no shows are symptomatic of the Biden administration’s efforts to deliberately defeat our immigration system, and it will take years to get that system back on track,” CIS’s Andrew R. Arthur said in the report.
According to Arthur, the issue is the “refusal” of the Biden administration detaining illegal immigrants when first encountered by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the border, and made the “majority” public on notices appearing in immigration court.
However, Arthur argued that such immigrants are most likely to skip court cases.
“Under immigration law, the unlikely chance of appearing in court if an alien who is not worthy of relief is released is why Congress asks DHS to detain what CBP encounters at the border and port,” Arthur said.
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US President Joe Biden will speak with US Customs and Border Guard officers on January 8, 2023, as he visits the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas (Jim Watson/AFP)
Under current immigration law, immigrants encountered by CBP officers and Border Patrol agents who do not have the appropriate admission documents will be subject to rapid removal. This gives those immigrants the rights before an immigration judge unless they show credible fear of harm if they are returned to their country of origin, the CIS report says.
Those eligible for rapid removal must be detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the report adds.
Such a disregard for the rules led to “inevitable” outcomes, Arthur argued, including a huge number of immigration court hearings.
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This photo shows immigration at the southern border encountered in Arizona. (US Border Patrol)
“The more than half a million aliens who have not appeared in immigration court in the last four years are another inevitable outcome of the Biden administration’s refusal to comply with our immigration laws,” Arthur said. “They are symptomatic of a deliberately broken system, and systems that will remain in court dockets for the next few years.”
Michael Lee is a Fox News writer. Before joining Fox News, Michael worked for Washington Examiner, Bongino.com, and for the impartial America. He has covered politics for over eight years.
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