Those categories did not apply to the children who appeared recently in immigration court.

The automated immigration court information system was activated on July 1, 1995.

"We have asked the immigration court to terminate these proceedings."

The current practice in immigration court is to require translation only of the questions put to the alien, and the answers.

Normally in such cases, the immigration courts order the foreigners to leave within a few weeks of their hearings.

Their cases will be handled in special immigration courts.

Deportation cases are handled in a special nationwide system of immigration courts.

The children's asylum cases will remain in immigration courts.

The data was collected from the Justice Department, which oversees the nation's immigration courts.

Francis Lyons, a retired judge of the immigration court who serves on the photo studio's board, has tried to debate the decision.