Posted on Jul 23, 2017
Trump's immigration crackdown is straining courts, advocates say
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Department of Justice officials note that the backlog and long waits did not begin under Trump. Average wait times steadily grew during President Barack Obama’s administration including when thousands of Central American children and families fleeing violence in their home countries arrived in the summer of 2014.
The Obama administration requested $3.7 billion from Congress to deal with the backlog, but received only a fraction of the funding.
The Obama administration requested $3.7 billion from Congress to deal with the backlog, but received only a fraction of the funding.
Trump's immigration crackdown is straining courts, advocates say
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This is why we have immigration courts, to deal with immigration (legal and illegal) cases. We have had a load of people illegally enter the US so now it will backlog the courts to deal with them all. Had the previous administration taken a more firm line we might not be here now.
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Cpl Jeff N.
SGT (Join to see) - I did read the article. The immigration courts are backed up because we have a lot of immigration related cases. That is mostly because we have taken a more aggressive posture on illegal immigration.
These are immigration courts so pretty much all of their work is immigration related. What would you suggest we do? Not deport illegals? not allow people their "day in court" and just deport them? The work is the work, it has to be done, it is backed up because we have done a poor job of enforcing our laws and staffing courts to handle the now growing workload due to more aggressive immigration work.
These are immigration courts so pretty much all of their work is immigration related. What would you suggest we do? Not deport illegals? not allow people their "day in court" and just deport them? The work is the work, it has to be done, it is backed up because we have done a poor job of enforcing our laws and staffing courts to handle the now growing workload due to more aggressive immigration work.
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MCPO Roger Collins
Yes, legal to do so, but this power was terribly abused by the Obama administration.
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GySgt Melissa Gravila
IMO when we have cities/states declaring themselves sanctuary cities for illegals they are avoiding the immigration problem. They are illegal, theyve already broken the law, they shouldve been deported- if the judges had been doing their jobs, there wouldnt be such a huge backlog now. Also IMO, local governments are there to protect their CITIZENS, not illegal immigrants. BTW I did read the article as well.
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SGT (Join to see) thanks for the read/share, this is really interesting with the wait times.
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