Report Urges Overhaul of Immigrant Removal Adjudication System

Neither the Department of Homeland Security nor the nation's immigration courts -- both overwhelmed by exploding caseloads and inadequate resources -- are ensuring fair decisions and due process for noncitizens, according to a top-to-bottom investigation of the system for removing aliens from the United States. A pro bono team of 50 lawyers and legal assistants at Arnold & Porter spent more than a year examining the removal adjudication system at the request of the ABA's Commission on Immigration.