Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Border States Expedite Deportation Process

Fast-track deportations are dramatically increasing, due to extra pressure from Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Border states such as California.
Many immigrants. According to the Los Angeles Times, The number of detainees in California and across the nation who agreed to be deported without first seeing a judge jumped fivefold between 2004 and 2007, from 5,481 to nearly 31,554. In the first half of 2008, 17,445 speedy deportation orders were signed.
The Stanford Law School Immigrants' Rights Clinic states that approximately 95% of the people who agreed to the speedy deportations since 1999 are not represented by immigration attorneys.

The fast-track process was designed to allow those who have no form of relief to return to their home country as quickly as possible, but an immigration attorney can find a better solution.