Immigrants crossing the southern border have been repeatedly coached to invoke magic words describing their imagined persecution so that they can be granted asylum and paroled into the United States where many of them disappear dissolving into the underground economy, undermining domestic wages. Some migrants though, end up in immigration court facing deportation to their home country. The men and women who end up in front of an immigration judge are often some of the worst cases of immigration fraud. Unfortunately, Judge Young has been dangerously generous handing asylum status at alarming rates. As the statistics from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearing house note:

"Compared to Judge Young's denial rate of 25.3 percent, Immigration Court judges across the country denied 63.8percent of asylum claims during this same period. Judges at the San Francisco Immigration Court where Judge Young decided these cases denied asylum 32.1 percent of the time."

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It’s sadly expected that San Francisco liberal will be allowing illegals into the country at alarming rates, but Young is even out of step with her liberal colleagues on the San Francisco Immigration Court.

Immigration clinics at the nation’s law schools are some of the primary tools for providing free legal representation to illegal aliens. This representation often promotes bogus legal defenses, clogging the court system and delaying the timely deportation of migrants who came to the United States illegally. Judge Young was at the forefront of that type of advocacy at the University of Arkansas. For example in 2013 when the U.S. Senate was considering amnesty for illegal aliens, Young was leading a charge to come up with creative legal maneuvers to keep illegal aliens from being deported.

“Between now and when and if anything passes, people are still subject to deportation,” said Elizabeth Young, director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Arkansas. “It’s not going to stop anything right now.”

One way to stop deportation is by filing a petition available to individuals who have U.S. citizen relatives and who can also show extreme hardship, Young said

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Lawyers manufacturing “hardship” claims are a tried-and-true method for them to slow the deportation process and keep illegal aliens working in the United States in positions that could otherwise be filled by United States citizens.

When President Obama decided to bypass Congress and provide legal status to millions of illegal aliens, Elizabeth Young was one of a cadre of academic’s praising his action.

Editor’s note: On November 20, President Obama announced a plan-through an executive order-to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation if they meet certain criteria. His move has caused uproar among the Republicans on Capitol Hill and in many state governors’ mansions. Here scholars from around the country give their reactions as to the impact the president’s decision will have on policy, politics and the immigrants themselves

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Elizabeth Lee Young, Associate Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law As an immigration-law clinician and practitioner, I am excited to see that President Obama took action last night to streamline the process of immigration enforcement. The proposal he outlined will bring much-needed prioritization within the deportation process, as well as immediate relief to families of mixed status. I look forward to seeing the prioritization program implemented. I have heard commentary from both sides of the issue–some arguing the President went too far, others arguing he did not go far enough–but I think the changes he proposed are an ideal execution of the balance of the powers afforded to the head of the executive branch. The changes he proposes are fine for the now, but the country needs a permanent solution for the broken immigration system. Perhaps his call to Congress to finally take action will be heeded in the coming year.

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Sadly this is yet another example of liberal academics ignoring the rule of law if it meets their ends of facilitating illegal immigration into the United States.