Bloggings on Deportation and Removal

Matthew Kolken

Jul 24, 2012

Latest Prosecutorial Discretion Statistics: Only 1.9 Percent Received Favorable Exercise

TRAC has come out with the latest statistics from the Obama administration's prosecutorial discretion intiative under last year's Morton Memo. *

Here is what they found:

As of June 28, 2012 a total of 5,684 cases were closed under a special Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program announced in August 2011.*The stated goal of the program is to reduce the massive backlog of pending matters in the Immigration Courts by identifying those that could be dismissed or put on hold through the exercise of prosecutorial discretion (PD). The number of PD closures was up from 4,585 cases closed as of the end of May; however, it still amounted to only 1.9 percent of the 298,173 cases that had been pending before the Immigration Courts as of the end of last September.

Of the 5,684 total administrative closures only 294 (5%) were granted to individuals that did not have legal representation. *So the reality is that if you want the Obama administration to help you with your deportation case, you better have an experienced immigration attorney.

Click here to read the report.

About The Author

Matthew Kolken is a trial lawyer with experience in all aspects of United States Immigration Law including Immigration Courts throughout the United States, and appellate practice before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York , the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

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