Deportation Hearings For Illegal Alien Children And Surprise! Nobody Shows Up     By Robert Gehl  August 5, 2014

    When those tens of thousands of unaccompanied alien children streamed across the border, the ones we could intercept were given a sheet of paper telling them when and where to appear in immigration court and sent on their way.    They were supposed to show up to “deportation proceedings,” even though everybody knew it was a joke: Nobody – once they got here – was going to voluntarily show up to a deportation hearing.And so it’s true. Many of these proceedings are scheduled now and if what happened in one Los Angeles courtroom recently is any indication, nobody will show up.     At an immigration court, Judge Ashley Tabaddor had a caseload of nearly 40 illegal immigrant minors and not a single one showed up. The judge didn’t want to deport them in absentia, so she ordered a change of venue to wherever the children went.     As a response to the large number of change-of-venue orders, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency implemented a new process in June whereby officials wait to file cases on unaccompanied alien children and send all unaccompanied-juvenile case files to a central location, according to an ICE spokesperson.     It’s time to stop the joke and tell the truth: Congress doesn’t know or care what to do with our border crisis. So who does?