President Donald Trump’s administration is reversing what officials call President Joe Biden’s “quiet amnesty” by reopening hundreds of thousands of previously closed deportation cases, Breitbart reported.

The Department of Homeland Security has begun reviving deportation cases that were not adjudicated on the merits and were administratively closed during the Biden administration, ending a practice critics say allowed illegal immigrants to remain in the United States indefinitely without proper cause.

Under Biden, immigration courts were instructed to dismiss or close many deportation cases rather than fully adjudicate them. Most of those asylum claims are typically found to be invalid, according to DHS.

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