A recent unpublished Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision held that a motion to reopen a case should have been granted after an order of deportation was entered when the foreign national failed to attend a master calendar hearing. The foreign national was stuck in traffic after a well-publicized crane accident in April 2006 in Miami, FL that shut down traffic coming into the downtown area.

The foreign national appeared at court a few hours late and the Immigration Judge was still sitting on the bench, but had already ordered her removed. The judge refused to reopen the case. The BIA decision is significant because it shows that a foregn naional can establish extraordinary circumstances due to a traffic jam, if the case can be properly documented. In support of the written motion to reopen, her attorney filed newspaper articles about the traffic jam and a detailed affidavit of the alien. One journalist called it a traffic jam "of biblical proportions."

Oficiales de deportacion de la oficina de Inmigración y Aduanas de los EE.UU. (ICE) expulsaron a 33 criminales extranjeros y violadores de las leyes de inmigracion el 18 de Septiembre de 2006. Todos los deportados fueron detenidos en instalaciones de la ICE en Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas y Tennesse.

Entre los deportados se encuentra John Patiño de 46 años de edad, quien fue encontrado culpable de secuestrar a William Orjuela-Mendez de 37 años quien fuera encontrado culpable de asalto sexual. Patiño y Orjuela fueron deportados de los EEUU a su pais de origen, Colombia.