"The lawyers say the initiative by the Trump administration, which was seemingly paused in August but could start up again in the future, denied due process: Immigrants with long-paused cases can be hard to track down, and attorneys have not always been informed of the motions in time to challenge them in court. The old cases involve many who sought visas based on a special status: one for juveniles abandoned or abused and the second specifically for crime victims."
"Administrative closure happens when a judge pauses a case because an immigrant is seeking legal status outside of immigration court, or because the immigrant has no criminal record and the judge sees them as a low-enforcement priority. The Department of Homeland Security started asking to bring back those cases nationally, unpausing them so that removal proceedings could resume and immigration judges could order deportations."
DHS filed motions to recalendar roughly 2,000 administratively closed cases in the San Francisco immigration court, attempting to revive long-paused deportation proceedings. Many affected respondents sought Special Immigrant Juvenile or U-visa status, or had cases paused because judges considered them low enforcement priorities and the respondents had no criminal records. The department used boilerplate motions and expanded the request nationally to resume removal proceedings and allow judges to order deportations. Attorneys reported difficulty locating respondents and inadequate notice to counsel, creating due-process concerns. The initiative appeared paused in August but could restart in the future.
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