So why hasnt trump hired more judges?
Ankle monitors have a return rate of 97%…
A wall isnt going to stop people froming coming over…
A majority stay over because of visas…
We know this isn’t true because illgegal crossings are down as much as 95% where we’ve put in strong, tall fences.
He’s requested the money from congress to start up new immigration courts, but again, it doesn’t matter how many more judges we hire unless we secure the border.
800,000 cases at just two hours each would add up to 1.6 million hours of court time.
Let’ hire 200 new judges, that’s roughly 6,000 hours of court time figuring 30hrs of actual court hearings per week for each of them.
800,000/6000 = 25.6 years even if those judges worked solely on the backlog with zero new cases.
Without effective barriers it’s a completely insurmountable problem.
As for how effective ankle monitoring, it has been relatively effective in the limited trial but then scaling up would come at a huge cost and those people are still out on our streets where either they are working illegally and depressing wages in the area or putting a huge strain on local charities and welfare programs, again at a huge cost.
Worse, if we don’t get a handle on all of this sooner rather than later the caravans will be getting larger, more frequent, only straining further all available resources.
Any solution has to start with preventing as many as possible from ever getting into the country and you’re not going to do that without effective physical barriers.
We have no real idea of how many visa overstays there are as there’s no entry/exit tracking system. You know that though because we’ve discussed it here many times in the past already.
Your math is off by a lot. 1.6 million hours of court time divided by 600 judges (394 existing and 200 new) is 2666.66 hours. That’s 111 days and not 25.6 years
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My math isn’t off at all. The premise is that the 200 new judges would work solely on the backlog leaving the existing judges/courts to work on current/future cases.
Sure it is. 1.6 million hours divided by 600 judges is 2666.66 hours and not 26.5 years
The current backlog is 5.1 years yet you’re saying if we increase the number of judges by 33% that the backlog would increase 500%. Please explain how that is possible.
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Really?
Let’s work it out step by step.
800,000 cases.
200 judges.
How? The continued swelling of asylum cases each year.
The swell of asylum seekers from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, combined with the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants in the United States, had created a years-long backlog of pending immigration court cases. The number of pending immigration court cases grew by 84 percent since the end of 2013, according to the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, and jumped by 26 percent just since the end of 2016.
For each year we don’t clear more old cases than new cases which are filed the backlog increases, it nearly doubled just in a 3 year period.
If there was a five year delay in 2016 and it doubles again from 2016-2019 with the massive increases we’ve been seeing in asylum claims what’s going to happen in terms of waiting times?
Trump math: say whatever you want, never admit a mistake, claim victory, and slowly move goal posts.
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Notice anything in common with all these emergencies? Hint: None of them required any funding…
Thank God for our Bill of Rights is all I have to say, disarming the public is an act of Communism!
And the Bill of Rights that protects every American!
Are there considerably more border crossings this year than there have been in years past? Nope.
Will a wall stop immigrants from coming here? Nope.
Do most of our illegal drugs come from border crossings? Nope.
Would we be better off punishing companies like trump’s who hire undocumented workers? Yep.
Would that hurt Trump personally? Yep.
Is that why he won’t do the easy step first? Yep.
Does he just want to appease his base? Yep.
Is Mexico gonna pay for it like he said? Nope.
Is Lyin’ Don the kind of ego maniac who needs a monument to himself so he can point to it as an achievement? Yep.
Are his supporters so wrapped up in his cult of personality that they HAVE to fight everyone for him? Yep.
Why wasn’t this a national emergency during the time Lyin’ Don had a majority? Because he’s a manipulative liar who can’t negotiate his way out of a wet paper bag and this is his only option to use tax payer $$ to fund a monument to himself. Hello Caligula.
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So the 26.5 years came from nowhere. That’s what I thought.
Why do you keep ignoring the 397 judges we already have? 200 additional judges would make 600 judges handeling those cases
Makes sense.
I thought Great Society spending was legislated. It certainly couldn’t have be funded by ‘leftovers’ from other departments or projects for any length of time.
That’s the problem with groupies on both sides, they excuse their choosen politicians for pushing the envelope in getting what they want done, which in turn opens the door for the other side to play the same games. Rather then a demand to just do it the right way we end up with a repetitive chorus of “well, your guy did it so…”.
This rationale that “a congress voted for something similar in the past, therefore all future congresses must vote for anything even remotely related in the future”… is comedy.
No act of congress is, or ever has been required for the POTUS to mobilize or even send troops into congress including a declaration of war.
We’ve already been over this. The premise is the new judges would be dealing with only the backlog. The current number of judges can’t even handle all of the new cases or there wouldn’t be a backlog.
