Opinion: Deporting asylum seekers who miss court dates is not the rule of law
U.S. Border Patrol at U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary holding facilities in El Paso on May 2. By Elizabeth Keyes May 17 at 12:16 PM Elizabeth Keyes is an immigration litigator and a professor of immigration law at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
For example, as The Post reported this week, the administration had sought last year to round up thousands of asylum-seeking families in 10 cities, based mostly on “in absentia” orders of removal — deportation orders for people who did not show up for their court hearing. That sounds like the rule of law, right? People who don’t show up for court need to face the consequences, right?In 15 years representing immigrants, I have yet to meet someone who wants to skip a court date.
Since November 2018, the Trump administration has expedited the cases of recently arrived “family units” — people highly likely to be seeking asylum. By increasing speed in a system already stretched to its breaking point, the administration makes errors more likely. The prioritization of only the most recent arrivals sharply reduces the chance of preventing the consequential errors described above.
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