Trump Admin has already made attempts to increase the number of Border Patrol agents and increase their budget too which I will applaud but the decision to ignore DAPA and DACA laws to help decrease immigration court hearings and charging anyone attempting to cross the border with child as a human trafficker is a bit much – PB/TK
Trump Administration Will Use A Novel Method To Reduce Immigration Court Backlog – By streiff / July 14 2017
The immigration court system is close to broken. The New York Times reported that there was a backlog of some 525,000 cases:
The judge in Courtroom 2 had unsettling news for Edhite Pouken Shienji, a woman from Cameroon seeking asylum. After 14 years of delays, she was finally scheduled for a hearing. But at the last minute, the judge was reassigned to handle the cases of some migrants from Central America. Her hearing was postponed once again — to 2019.
In Courtroom 8, there was a deportation hearing for Damián Martínez, from Mexico. The judge soon discovered he was a 4-month-old infant, dozing on the shoulder of his mother. Somehow the baby’s case had become separated in court records from hers. The bewildered mother, in court without a lawyer, had no clue how to fix the problem.
The judge could only urge her to make sure that Damián “presents himself in all of his future hearings.”
Weighed down by a backlog of more than 520,000 cases, the United States immigration courts are foundering, increasingly failing to deliver timely, fair decisions to people fighting deportation or asking for refuge, according to interviews with lawyers, judges and government officials. With too few judges, overworked clerks and an antiquated docket based on stacks of paper files, many of the 56 courts nationwide have become crippled by delays and bureaucratic breakdowns.
By delaying these hearings, no one is well-served. The immigrant loses years of their life in a limbo and immigration law is made to look like an ass to citizens and non-citizens alike. This, in turn, encourages more illegal immigration and more hostility towards immigrants of all stripes.
Continue to redstate.com article: http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/07/14/trump-administration-will-use-novel-method-reduce-immigration-court-backlog/
