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Immigration issues overwhelming? How about approving some of those judges and funding? |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Jul 22 01:58:44 2014 Excerpt:U.S. immigration courts have a backlog of 375,373 cases, almost 50,000 more than they faced two years ago, according to Justice Department figures. Marks, one of the 243 judges presiding over 59 immigration courts in the United States, is setting hearing dates as far off as 2018. It now typically takes three to five years for cases to clear the system, judges and lawyers said. On a recent Wednesday at a crowded immigration court in Arlington, Virginia, a judge was setting February 2017 asylum hearings for juveniles. Wave of migrant children threatens to swamp U.S. immigration courts Want them gone? Spend some money. |
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