Swordsmyth
09-12-2018, 01:34 AM
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that he plans to increase the number of immigration (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/immigration/index.html) judges in the U.S. by 50 percent by the end of Fiscal Year 2018 – part of the administration's effort to take on a case backlog that has ballooned under the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy.
The number of immigration cases on hold in the U.S. has risen 38 percent since Trump took office, with 746,049 pending immigration cases as of July 31, up from 542,411 at the end of January 2017, according to an analysis (http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/)of government data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Sessions asserted his authority on Monday during remarks welcoming 44 newly hired immigration judges - the largest class in U.S. history - noting that they must operate under his supervision and perform the duties that he prescribes.
'As you take on this critically important role, I hope that you will be imaginative and inventive in order to manage a high-volume caseload,' he said. 'I do not apologize for expecting you to perform, at a high level, efficiently and effectively.'
The attorney general said the system for seeking asylum in the U.S. has been 'abused for years' and while the judges must respect immigrants' rights, they should also 'reject unjustified and sometimes blatantly fake claims.'
Sessions also had harsh words for the attorneys who represent immigrants, describing them as 'water seeping through an earthen dam,' who attempt to 'get around' immigration laws.
Sessions has said that he has introduced a 'streamlined' approach for hiring judges – a historically lengthy process – to bring the average hiring time down to 266 days, compared from 742 days in 2017, according to Department of Justice data.
Immigration judges are appointed by the U.S. attorney general. The new additions bring the total number of immigration judges in the U.S. to 397.
More at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6152755/The-U-S-increase-number-immigration-judges-50-percent-BALLOONING-backlog.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490
The number of immigration cases on hold in the U.S. has risen 38 percent since Trump took office, with 746,049 pending immigration cases as of July 31, up from 542,411 at the end of January 2017, according to an analysis (http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/)of government data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Sessions asserted his authority on Monday during remarks welcoming 44 newly hired immigration judges - the largest class in U.S. history - noting that they must operate under his supervision and perform the duties that he prescribes.
'As you take on this critically important role, I hope that you will be imaginative and inventive in order to manage a high-volume caseload,' he said. 'I do not apologize for expecting you to perform, at a high level, efficiently and effectively.'
The attorney general said the system for seeking asylum in the U.S. has been 'abused for years' and while the judges must respect immigrants' rights, they should also 'reject unjustified and sometimes blatantly fake claims.'
Sessions also had harsh words for the attorneys who represent immigrants, describing them as 'water seeping through an earthen dam,' who attempt to 'get around' immigration laws.
Sessions has said that he has introduced a 'streamlined' approach for hiring judges – a historically lengthy process – to bring the average hiring time down to 266 days, compared from 742 days in 2017, according to Department of Justice data.
Immigration judges are appointed by the U.S. attorney general. The new additions bring the total number of immigration judges in the U.S. to 397.
More at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6152755/The-U-S-increase-number-immigration-judges-50-percent-BALLOONING-backlog.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490