Jeff Sessions ends Obama-era 'de facto' court amnesty for illegal immigrants - Washington Times

Jeff Sessions ends Obama-era 'de facto' court amnesty for illegal immigrants - Washington Times:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a new directive to immigration judges Thursday telling them they can no longer shunt deportation cases off onto permanent wait-lists and leave illegal immigrants free to roam the U.S.
Known as administrative closure, the wait-list move had become a favorite tactic of the Obama administration, serving to protect low-priority illegal immigrants from deportation.
Rather than pursue those cases, government lawyers would propose — and judges would grant — administrative closure, shipping more than 200,000 cases to the suspension list in what analysts said became a “de facto” amnesty."