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The Washington Post |
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October 23, 2020 |
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Final Biden-Trump meeting covers coronavirus, race, climate change By Colby Itkowitz, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Matt Viser, Sean Sullivan, Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Felicia Sonmez and John Wagner |
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Trump's claim that less than 1 percent of people released into the country show up to their court hearings is false. The data show that immigrants overwhelmingly attend their hearings. Judges ordered "in absentia" deportations in 14 percent of cases in fiscal 2013, a rate that close to 25 percent in fiscal 2018. Flip the numbers, and that means 75 percent to 86 percent of migrants did show up for court. Justice Department officials say that since migrants who are in detention always attend their hearings — they have no choice — the right way to measure whether migrants show up in court is to look only at those who were never held in detention facilities. Using that measure, 59 percent showed up for immigration hearings in 2018. But researchers at the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University studied the question and came up with a much higher number: 81 percent of migrant families attended all their court hearings. |
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