National ICE Council president Chris Crane
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, the head of the immigration enforcement officers union harshly criticized both Congress and the Obama administration over the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill.
National ICE Council president Chris Crane said the massive bill places little value on the opinions of experienced immigration law enforcement professionals.
In a six-part interview with TheDC, Crane explains how Congress, the Obama administration and the bipartisan group of eight senators who crafted the 867-page bill have shown no willingness to enforce immigration laws and have left ICE unable to do its job. more
What I want to know is if Immigration Judges are Elected or Appointed? I found this link earlier: ‘Judge-by-Judge Asylum Decisions in Immigration CourtsFY 2007-2012′ in my normal surfing the web kind of way and ran across this list on Immigration and Judges who have the power to grant Amnesty. Here is another link from TRACIMMIGRATION that seems worth knowing. After much reading on this topic I think that the Immigration Judges need to be elected not appointed. ~shera~
Asylum Denial Rates by Nationality
FY 2000 – FY 2005The Office of the Chief Immigration Judge has established a procedure that allows any person to file a complaint about the conduct of an Immigration Judge. Below are links to documents which describe how to file a complaint, the procedures used to process complaints, and statistics concerning the disposition of complaints. There is also a link to the Ethics and Professionalism Guide for Immigration Judges. source
Nationality Number Decided Percent Denied Ranking Jamaica 138 92.0 1 Nicaragua 320 90.6 2 El Salvador 2,813 87.8 3 Dominican Republic 100 87.0 4 Mexico 1,829 85.8 5 Vietnam 342 85.4 6 Guyana 408 85.3 7 Ecuador 175 83.4 8 Haiti 12,675 83.2 9 Argentina 339 82.6 10 Cambodia 113 82.3 11 Honduras 780 82.2 12 Guatemala 4,118 81.5 13 Laos 200 80.5 14 Poland 155 80.0 15 Ghana 282 78.0 16 Philippines 631 75.8 17 Macedonia 309 75.1 18 Israel 156 74.4 19 Venezuela 561 74.0 20 Yemen 284 72.2 21 South Africa 110 71.8 22 Jordan 368 71.5 23 Brazil 325 71.4 24 Nigeria 997 71.1 25 Senegal 193 68.4 26 Angola 110 67.3 27 Indonesia 4,283 66.7 28 Syria 227 65.2 29 Colombia 13,524 64.2 30 Cuba 524 62.0 31 Turkey 305 61.3 32 Democratic Republic of Congo 157 61.1 33 Mauritania 1,919 60.7 34 Peru 1,747 60.6 35 Algeria 254 59.1 36 Lebanon 583 59.0 38 Pakistan 2,236 59.0 38 Latvia 113 58.4 39 Gambia 248 58.1 40 Armenia 3,005 57.3 41 Bangladesh 1,577 56.9 42 India 5,896 55.6 44 Sierra Leone 1,141 55.6 44 Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire) 399 55.1 45 Kampuchea 236 54.2 46 Yugoslavia 2,080 53.5 47 China 34,093 53.3 48 Guinea 1,394 52.7 49 Togo 500 52.4 50 Kenya 470 52.1 51 Cameroon 1,740 52.0 52 Bulgaria 526 51.7 53 Burundi 125 51.2 54 Ukraine 999 51.1 55 Albania 6,154 50.9 57 Romania 576 50.9 57 Eritrea 545 50.8 58 Georgia 602 49.5 59 Ethiopia 2,420 49.3 60 United Kingdom 109 48.6 61 Uganda 451 48.1 62 Zimbabwe 290 47.9 63 Fiji 896 47.7 64 Sudan 745 46.6 65 Congo 1,139 46.5 67 Somalia 2,248 46.5 67 Serbia Montenegro 227 44.9 68 Iran 1,828 44.2 69 Sri Lanka 1,137 42.9 71 Stateless 266 42.9 71 Iraq 1,526 42.0 72 Liberia 1,000 39.9 74 Zaire 168 39.9 74 Azerbaijan 304 39.8 75 Nepal 451 38.8 76 Soviet Union 227 37.9 77 Rwanda 175 37.7 78 Kazakhstan 253 37.2 79 Russia 2,803 36.1 80 Byelorussia (Belarus) 218 34.4 81 Egypt 1,821 32.8 82 Uzebekistan 438 29.9 83 Afghanistan 682 29.0 84 Burma (Myanmar) 840 24.9 85
Note: Only nationalities with at least 100 decisions during this period listed.
Immigration Inspections When Arriving in the U.S.
Each day, over a million people from around the globe seek to enter the U.S. through one of about 317 designated “ports-of-entry”. Many enter by land, such as at entry stations near San Diego or Detroit. Others enter at international airports, such as JFK in New York or O’Hare in Chicago, or through seaports in Miami or elsewhere.
TRAC has obtained government data that allows for a closer inspection of what happens to people when they appear at ports for entry into the country. This short summary report focuses on the process of gaining entry into the country at these official points of entry. It does not look at aliens without proper papers trying to slip across our border with Mexico and Canada in between these official entry stations. Reports on several aspects of controlling such cross-border entries into the US can be viewed at Immigration Reports.
The general process of entry into the U.S.
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Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties
The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
At least one-third of the immigration judges appointed by the Justice Department since 2004 have had Republican connections or have been administration insiders, and half lacked experience in immigration law, Justice Department, immigration court and other records show.
Two newly appointed immigration judges were failed candidates for the U.S. Tax Court nominated by President Bush; one fudged his taxes and the other was deemed unqualified to be a tax judge by the nation’s largest association of lawyers. Both were Republican loyalists.
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