and our Immigration court...EVERY judge has a 300 yr back log assigned to them right now.
We don't have enough Immigration Judges, Immigration Lawyers or COURT ROOMS to process these immigration cases.
We should be hiring 80,000 Immigration Lawyers and Judges and expanding court room access at the border instead of hiring IRS agents.
It is unrealistic to give an immigrant a court date and then have your judge with a 300 year back log. There IS a simple answer. Massively expand the immigration courts, relocate them to the border, expand the number of public immigration lawyers that can represent these immigrants and hire a bunch of judges so the back log is only 1-2 weeks.
THEN we close the borders, get caught up on ALL of the back Log. Then re-open the borders with the expectation that an immigrant shows up at the border, is taken into custody, they are assigned a Lawyer within a couple days while detained and get a court date and appearance within a week and then are either accepted and admitted or rejected and deported.
NO ONE wants to take this approach and fix the problem because there is No Political Advantage that can be gained from RESOLVING the issue. Both the GOP and the DEM parties get Positive political points with their base on the topic. Therefore they won't fix it, because then it is one less platform they can count on to drum up votes.
It is a side effect of NOT having term limits and people trying to remain in political power for decades upon decades. Without term limits the entire political game is about amassing wealth and power year after year and any lever you have that you can pull to get votes is a POWEFUL tool you don't ever want to be taken away......no resolving or fixing problems
Ohh look. the Border patrol is saying they need more Immigration Judges and Lawyers at the border to immediately handle all cases and remove the back log.....
Checks his post from Sept 2023
I've been beating this drum for a long time now...bout time someone else is actually trying to solve the real problem.
Border Patrol: ‘Surge immigration judges to our border’
(
NewsNation) — A March 21
border riot in El Paso County, Texas, wasn’t the first of its kind but was the “most dramatic” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd can remember, he told “The Hill.”
More than 200 people are facing state charges for allegedly forcing their way through a barrier of outnumbered Texas Army National Guard troops on Thursday, March 21, tearing down razor wire as they did so, NewsNation partner Border Report wrote.
A judge in Texas ordered some migrants accused of taking part in the riot to be released from jail on Sunday, the
El Paso Times reported.
“It sends a message that you can cross our borders illegally, that you can actually assault people, and you’re going to be released,” Judd said.
Migrants without sufficient documentation will remain jailed if a federal immigration hold blocks their release, the newspaper wrote.
“All we have to do is surge immigration judges to our border,” Judd said. “Surge asylum officers to our border. Have those court appearances immediately upon crossing the border illegally.”
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this year sent the National Guard to the region to keep migrants from reaching the U.S. border, and razor wire had been set up for that purpose as part of Texas’ Operation Lone Star.
