Rising Number of Deportation Cases Automatically Dismissed Over Failure to Provide Key Documents: Report

A Border Patrol agent organizes illegal immigrants who have gathered by the border fence after crossing from Mexico into the United States in Yuma, Ariz., on Dec. 10, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are having their deportation cases dismissed before even stepping inside an immigration courtroom because Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are failing to file the requisite paperwork, a new report has found.

One out of every six new cases (16.6 percent) is being dismissed due to the failure, according to the immigration court docket tracker Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.