Judges and Judiciary,
Immigration
Jul. 16, 2021
AG Garland says immigration judges can resume delaying deportations
Merrick Garland reinstated “administrative closure, which he said, “does not terminate or dismiss the case, but rather ‘remove[s] a case from an immigration judge’s active calendar or from the [immigration] board’s docket.”
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland reinstated immigration judges’ ability to postpone deportation cases on Thursday, reversing one of his predecessors’ findings that they were not legally allowed to do so.
The ruling, Matter of Cruz-Valdez Interim Decision, No. 4022, reversed a ruling by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions that found immigration judges did not have the authority to use the administrative closure process to post...
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