IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “Sending immigration judges to the border has resulted in thousands of more cases being handled, the Justice Department announced Wednesday [10-4-17], though a substantial backlog in the immigration courts remain.
The Justice Department released new statistics on Wednesday touting the effects of reassigning more than 100 immigration judges to the southern border, saying it has resulted in 2,700 more cases being completed than would have otherwise.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which manages the Justice Department’s immigration court system, estimated that the judges moved to the border completed significantly more cases than if they had remained at home, and completed 21% more cases than judges historically assigned to those areas as their home courts.
Still, the 2,700-case-increase remains a drop in the bucket compared to the backlog in the immigration courts, which are separate from the broader criminal justice and civil law system and have different rules.”
-Tal Kopan, “DOJ touts effects of surge of immigration judges sent to border,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Oct. 4, 2017 09:20am