A case takes nearly 900 days to make its way through the backlogged immigration courts of Texas. The national average is about 700 days in a system sagging with nearly 700,000 cases.
A new edict from President Donald Trump’s administration orders judges of the immigration courts to speed it up. Now the pushback begins.
Quotas planned for the nation’s 334 immigration judges will just make the backlog worse by increasing appeals and questions about due process, says Ashley Tabaddor, Los Angeles-based president of the National Association of Immigration Judges.
Read more at the Dallas Morning News
