How to Get Our Immigration Courts Back to Enforcing Federal Law
By Mark H. Metcalf, Hans A. von Spakovsky May 2017
Fox News, May 17, 2017
With the backlog of immigration cases hitting a record high of 585,930 cases in April according to Syracuse University, the initiative announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last month in Nogales, Ariz., to hire more immigration judges is a vital step in bringing our immigration courts back to enforcing federal law. This includes the long overdue hiring of an additional 50 immigration judges this year and another 75 next year under a "streamlined" hiring process.
Now that Sessions has "already surged 25 immigration judges to detention centers along the border" and the Trump administration ended the Obama era "catch and release" policy, we may once again see U.S. immigration courts fulfilling their mission: trying the cases of those who have entered or remained here illegally.
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