(NY Post) – Thousands of kids who crossed
illegally into the United States will hit the jackpot Wednesday, when their
expedited cases begin coming before New York City immigration judges — who are
the most lenient in the country.
The first judge assigned to the so-called
“surge docket” is Frank Loprest, an Obama administration pick who grants asylum
in 88 percent of the cases before him. The national average is about 50
percent.
Only five other judges in the nation have a
more generous asylum record and they are all Loprest’s New York City
colleagues, according to data from the Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse of Syracuse University.
In all, the immigration court in the city has
granted nearly 80 percent of asylum seekers’ requests since 2009, compared to
40 percent in Los Angeles and 30 percent in Houston.
“They are very empathic,” Noemi Masliah, a New
York immigration attorney, said of the city’s judges. “They listen carefully to
the evidence. It’s as if they feel like they are saving a life when they grant
cases.”
For immigrants seeking relief, their fate
appears to hinge on one American adage: Location, location, location.
“Given the statistics, the chances of success
for an applicant fearing persecution seem to be based on where in the country
and before which judge she or he makes the claim,” Masliah added. “This is very
disturbing.”
The court will be on the front lines of the
migrant children crisis, with more than 63,000 children flooding across the Rio
Grande since October. Once detained at the border, they are released to
relatives in the United States and given a court date nearby.
“New
York tends to be one of the destinations for most of these kids,” said Jojo
Annobil, attorney in charge of the Immigration Law Unit at the Legal Aid
Society, in explaining the surge docket in city. Loprest will handle the surge
docket at least for the first week, and other city judges may rotate later. “A
judge who has a good asylum grant rate is going to be much more amenable to
these kids,” said Jason Abrams, another city immigration lawyer.
Experts say the reasons for the high rate of
successful asylum applications in the city may be that there are more
immigrants from asylum-favored countries, such as China, and better access to
legal aid. Almost all asylum seekers — 89 percent — are denied when they don’t
have a lawyer.
Public Advocate Letitia James pleaded Tuesday
for New York’s attorneys to come forward and help the expected influx of
unaccompanied undocumented child migrants.
http://nypost.com/2014/08/13/new-york-judges-to-start-hearing-child-immigrant-cases/
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Comments
These Judges might not know that DHS
advertised for “escorts” to bring 65,000 children up through the border. The ad
ran in FedBizOps in January 2014. See DHS Planned Invasion, posted July 14,
2014 on this Blog. This scam spared no expense. Obama hiring folks to create
all of our crises would explain how he is able to spend an extra $trillion a
year.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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