Trump's immigration crackdown is straining courts, advocates say

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.

Eric Holder used Prosectorial Discretion as an excuse to justify his partial and racially biased implementation (or lack thereof) of the laws.

Yes, legal to do so, but this power was terribly abused by the Obama administration.

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.
S/F

Susan Foster - That he circumvented Congress. At the time I remember pictures of R/R's cars children riding north in the hope of slipping into our country.

SFC (Join to see) - As I recall, that act didn't apply to anyone coming in, just children of illegal immigrants who had been in this country most of their school/growing up years. I do remember the pics of R/R cars too, and in fact re-looked it up. Those were hiding on grain cars to sneak in, and at the time I think it was viewed as a humanitarian crisis because it was so dangerous. Anyway, thanks, I do understand the circumventing Congress thing. I would have liked to have seen them take on a clear path to citizenship years ago. I think, as a country, we could have solved this by now.

Susan Foster - I don’t want to see poverty and hunger around the world. I don’t believe we have enough resources in our country to put a dent in all the need and want out there. The want is from the corrupt governments that take our aid and do nothing to better the status of their counties and citizens. They are a bottomless pit.

You and I are on opposite ends of the coin when it comes to thinking about what is good for our country. It is good that we both agree that whatever actions are taken need to be taken through our countries checks and balances.

SFC (Join to see) - No, we aren't on opposite ends. We may not always agree on methodology, but we certainly agree on doing what's good for the country. I usually fall squarely in centrist mode and try to look at both sides. I don't always--that wouldn't be human--but I really try. IMHO, if more of us would brainstorm about ways to solve problems instead of bashing each other, we might solve more. I totally agree we can't do it all either, and with what you say here. You are right.