Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

By: Allison Posner

CLINIC welcomes the Obama Administration’s August 18^th announcement that the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice will be working together to re-assess and prioritize the hundreds of thousands of pending removal cases.  In addition to providing temporary relief from imminent deportation to those individuals whose cases will be administratively closed,  this interagency review will cut into the severe backlog that plagues our immigration court system, reducing the wait times for individual cases to be adjudicated.