A person looks through the border wall toward the United States in San Diego. By Salvador Rizzo Salvador Rizzo Reporter for The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow May 10 at 3:00 AM When we see politicians or government officials writing fact checks of their own, we break out our magnifying glass.
In other cases, EOIR officials dispute common claims about immigration with cherry-picked data or questionable information. This is what we focused on, picking out four of the 18 claims.FACT: The median asylum grant rate for all immigration courts is eleven percent . Eighty percent of immigration courts, 50 out of 62, have a grant rate of twenty-one percent or lower. Only 12 out of 62 courts have grant rates more than ten percent above the median grant rate.
Immigration judges typically issue deportation orders “in absentia” when immigrants fail to show up for their scheduled hearings. “Only non-detained aliens are potentially subject to an in absentia order of removal,” she wrote in an email responding to detailed questions. “By definition, a detained alien generally would not be subject to an in absentia removal order because the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for ensuring all aliens in its custody attend hearings.
“Having a lawyer makes a huge difference across the immigration court system,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy analyst at the American Immigration Council, wrote in a Twitter thread analyzing the EOIR document. The GAO also noted that a federal government manual for internal controls says “agencies must have relevant, reliable, and timely information relating to internal as well as external events to manage the agency’s operations. EOIR, though, does not collect reliable data on the number of hearings it conducts by VTC, respondent appeals related to the use of VTC in their cases, or motions filed by respondents requesting in-person instead of VTC hearings.
She added: “Regarding case outcomes, no study has demonstrated a statistically significant difference in outcomes at agencies which use VTC for hearings.”
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We don't care about you 'fact checking'. It is nothing more than political opinion and spin. It is leftist propaganda. We know you lied to the American people for over two years with your false conspiracy narratives. Why should we believe your fact checkers now? No credibility.
LeChatNoire4 We'll see how well this goes when teachers start shooting unruly students in the classroom.
Who is fact checking you? You have state lies plenty of time
WaPo doing unbiased fact-checking is an oxymoron...
It's easy to fact check trump. If his lips are moving, it's a lie.
The WP fact checking...
I'd be surprised if anything he said was true.
At this point in time does bezos blog have any credibility left to conduct a fact check? RussiaRussiaRussia Spygate
Let me guess. It contains a bunch of lies.
Oh the irony... a responsibility that must fall to the media
1) Assume everything is a lie 2) Repeat No.1
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