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Biden Admin Announces New Expedited Hearing Process for Families Who Illegally Enter the Country
The Biden administration has opened up a fast lane for illegal immigrants.
The Department of Justice and Homeland Security announced Friday that it will be creating what is called a Dedicated Docket program that is designed to reduce the time illegal immigrant families have to wait to have their cases heard before an immigration judge, according to a Department of Justice news release.
The release frames the projectThe border was well on it's way to being secured... that is until Jan 20th 2021!
The immigration court system currently has about 1.3 million pending cases, according to PBSreported in February 2020 that 70 percent of the cases in immigration courts between September 2019 and January 2020 resulted in what is called in absentia orders for removal when the illegal immigrants never showed up.
The new Biden administration policy comes amid a surge of illegal immigrants entering America.
Customs and Border Protection data shows that in April, there were 172,000 encounters with illegal immigrantsThe National Immigrant Justice Center opposed the proposal.
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