LOL...WTF?
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On Wednesday, Bill Melugin a national correspondent for Fox News took to X, formerly Twitter, to report a "Colombian woman who crossed illegally into El Paso, Texas and was released into the U.S. was given an ICE check-in date in NYC in 2031," adding that her immigration attorney, Matthew Kolken said "it's one of the most shocking things he's seen in his nearly 30 years of immigration law."
"Kolken tells me his client is a legitimate asylum seeker with what he feels is an air tight case, but because the system is so backlogged with illegitimate asylum claims, he's not sure they'll ever get a chance to argue it in court with her next check in 8 years into the future," Melugin wrote on X.
"It made me realize the Biden administration is basically providing backdoor amnesty for anyone who wants to show up at the border," Kolken said, according to Melugin.
According to the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, a nonprofit organization aiming to provide asylum seekers with legal and community support, as of spring 2023 some ICE offices are scheduling first appointments or follow-up appointments many years in the future.
Similar migrant cases have been given immigration court dates more than a decade away. In Brownsville, Texas, migrants who arrived in the U.S. in May showed paperwork with designated court dates set as late as 2032 and 2035 in Chicago and Florida, according to the New York Post.
In May, backlogs at immigration courts stood at 2.1 million cases waiting to be heard, as of December the Immigration Court backlog passed 3 million pending cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) report.
Migrant Released Into US Told to Check in With ICE 8 Years Later
A migrant processed into the U.S. as an asylum seeker was given a check-in date to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York for 2031.
www.newsweek.com
On Wednesday, Bill Melugin a national correspondent for Fox News took to X, formerly Twitter, to report a "Colombian woman who crossed illegally into El Paso, Texas and was released into the U.S. was given an ICE check-in date in NYC in 2031," adding that her immigration attorney, Matthew Kolken said "it's one of the most shocking things he's seen in his nearly 30 years of immigration law."
"Kolken tells me his client is a legitimate asylum seeker with what he feels is an air tight case, but because the system is so backlogged with illegitimate asylum claims, he's not sure they'll ever get a chance to argue it in court with her next check in 8 years into the future," Melugin wrote on X.
"It made me realize the Biden administration is basically providing backdoor amnesty for anyone who wants to show up at the border," Kolken said, according to Melugin.
According to the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, a nonprofit organization aiming to provide asylum seekers with legal and community support, as of spring 2023 some ICE offices are scheduling first appointments or follow-up appointments many years in the future.
Similar migrant cases have been given immigration court dates more than a decade away. In Brownsville, Texas, migrants who arrived in the U.S. in May showed paperwork with designated court dates set as late as 2032 and 2035 in Chicago and Florida, according to the New York Post.
In May, backlogs at immigration courts stood at 2.1 million cases waiting to be heard, as of December the Immigration Court backlog passed 3 million pending cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) report.
