200,000 Deportation Cases Dismissed Since Biden Took Office Because DHS Failed to File Proper Paperwork in Time
Even as the Senate refuses to act on the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the evidence of his dereliction of duty continues to mount. According to data released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, immigration judges have dismissed some 200,000 deportation cases since the Biden administration came to office because DHS failed to file the required paperwork in time.
In order for deportations to proceed, DHS must file Notices to Appear (NTA) in the courts where the aliens have been ordered to appear. Between 2014 and 2020 – which spanned both the Obama and Trump administrations – fewer than 1 percent of cases were dismissed due to failure to file NTAs. But those numbers exploded once Secretary Mayorkas assumed office, jumping from 6,482 in 2020 (the last full year of the previous administration) to 79,592 in 2022. Under his watch, 8.4 percent of cases have been dismissed. In immigration courts in Miami and Houston more than 50 percent of cases were dismissed because NTAs were not filed.
The TRAC report also revealed that there was little DHS follow-up on the cases that were dismissed. In only about a quarter of these cases did DHS file new NTAs, and in about 2,000 of those cases the paperwork was once again filed after the deadline. In typical fashion of the Mayorkas-run DHS, there is little transparency about why the department has been delinquent in filing so many NTAs. “No information to our knowledge has been publicly released by DHS on why and where these problems occur,” states the TRAC report. “Equally troubling,” the report continues, “is the lack of solid information on what happened to these many immigrants when DHS never rectified its failure by reissuing and filing new NTAs to restart their Court cases.”
Whether the alarming number of cases being dismissed for lack of paperwork is the result of gross incompetence or deliberate sabotage on the part of an administration that has little interest in removing illegal aliens from the United States, what is absolutely clear is that Alejandro Mayorkas is not fit to lead DHS. The House has already done its part and impeached him, and this new report underscores the urgency for action on the part of the Senate. As of the printing of this publication, it is expected that the House will send the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10.