One obstacle to the deportation of illegal aliens is a shortage of U.S. immigration judges. Currently there are only 735 of these judges to deal with a backlog of between three to five million cases.
Former immigration judge Matt O’Brien of the Immigration Reform Law Institute proposes a solution: “If we were to deal with stuff correctly, there should be an immigration court in every major U.S. city in the country, and there should be one at regular intervals along the borders and both coasts.”
Processing the departure illegal aliens in the U.S. poses a daunting challenge. A total of twelve million in the country is a commonly cited statistic, but in the aftermath of the previous administration’s open border policies, the true number is probably higher. Estimates range between 15 and 30 million.
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There are only 735 U.S. immigration judges, which is why we have a major problem in immigration courts. They currently have 3-5 million cases backlogged, and 1.5 million people already waiting to be deported after final hearings.
Want to see mass deportations? Former immigration judge Matt O’Brien of the Immigration Reform Law Institute has the answer: “If we were to deal with stuff correctly, there should be an immigration court in every major U.S. city in the country, and there should be one at regular intervals along the borders and both coasts.”
If the administration wants to remove just the 12 million people who are here illegally from the prior administration, it needs to dramatically increase the number of judges adjudicating immigration cases.
Whether by appropriating other judges or adding new ones, there needs to be immediate, drastic changes to deal with this crisis.
Let thousand[s] of immigration judges bloom.