Advocates push for office to reconsider ‘unjust’ deportations.
May 03, 2021
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) requested for the Biden administration to open an independent office within the Department of Homeland Security in charge of adjudicating applications from people who have been already deported but are hoping to return to the United States. According to NIJC, establishing a centralized office would allow those requests to be decided faster and more consistently while also alleviating pressure from the immigration court system. Deported immigrants who had legal status before being removed and whose convictions were pardoned or expunged, and whose offenses wouldn’t be illegal today, could be candidates for a faster review, said the NIJC associate policy director.