21.   Before passage of a Republican-backed law five years ago, only an immigration judge could order the deportation of someone who arrived without valid travel documents.

22.   Because of the heavy INS caseload, officials said, it is occasionally impossible to present all the necessary evidence to an immigration judge.

23.   A large plaque hangs on the wall behind the immigration judge who presides in the small, dark, wood-paneled chamber in the administration building.

24.   A federal immigration judge in Baltimore has ordered the former chief of a Haitian paramiltary force deported to Haiti to face murder charges, court officials said Tuesday.

25.   A spokesman for the immigration agency, John Ingham, said Aesfyza would appear before an immigration judge to consider whether he should be deported.

26.   A U.S. immigration judge declined to rule immediately on a request by lawyers for former Mexican Deputy Attorney General Mario Ruiz Massieu that he be let out on bail.

27.   After first being denied by an immigration judge last year, her claim will be reviewed Thursday by the Board of Immigration Appeals.

28.   After the immigration judge turned her down, she would have been sent back at once to Togo, and butchery.

29.   After that, if an immigration judge refuses bond, they can be held while deportation proceedings begin, an official said.

30.   All such hearings are closed, and no information about them is to be disclosed publicly, under a Justice Department order issued by the chief immigration judge.