The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — the administrative DOJ tribunal that considers challenges to immigration decisions — recently issued an opinion in Matter of Angel Damian Orozco Becerra and Matter of Neythan Orozco Becerra. The BIA held the immigration judge handling their cases had erred in failing to order two minor brothers from Mexico deported after they and their mother repeatedly failed to appear for their removal proceedings. It’s the latest step to roll back what the House Judiciary Committee has referred to as the Biden administration’s “quiet amnesty” for aliens here illegally.
'Quiet Amnesty'
In October 2024, the House Judiciary Committee issued an interim staff report captioned: “Quiet Amnesty: How the Biden-Harris Administration Uses the Nation’s Immigration Courts to Advance an Open-Borders Agenda”.
That report explained that the Biden administration had allowed removable aliens to remain in this country by tanking their cases in immigration court using three separate procedural maneuvers: administrative closure, termination, and dismissal.
As the BIA described the first practice in 2012: “Administrative closure ... is used to temporarily remove a case from an Immigration Judge's active calendar or from the Board's docket.”
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