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Immigration,
Government

Jun. 14, 2018

Immigration judges use delay tactic

Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered an end to a docketing mechanism judges used to allow immigrants to indefinitely delay deportation while they explored other avenues for staying in the country.

Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered an end to a docketing mechanism judges used to allow immigrants to indefinitely delay deportation while they explored other avenues for staying in the country.

Sessions said in January that he was reviewing the procedure and indicated he didn’t think much of it. Almost immediately, some immigration court judges in California began using another procedural tool to accomplish a similar...

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