{"id":298715,"date":"2017-03-12T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-deploys-dozens-of-judges-to-battle-massive-backlog-of-deportation-cases\/"},"modified":"2017-03-12T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T15:24:03","slug":"trump-deploys-dozens-of-judges-to-battle-massive-backlog-of-deportation-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-deploys-dozens-of-judges-to-battle-massive-backlog-of-deportation-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Deploys Dozens Of Judges To Battle Massive Backlog Of Deportation Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-03-10\/trump-deploys-dozens-judges-battle-massive-backlog-deportation-cases\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 12, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>In response to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-03-06\/immigration-courts-paralyzed-case-volume-300-judges-face-530000-pending-cases\">\u2018paralysis\u2019 facing immigration courts<\/a>, dealing with over 500,000 pending cases,\u00a0President Trump is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities\u00a0across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-immigration-judges-idUSKBN16H030\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-03-06\/immigration-courts-paralyzed-case-volume-300-judges-face-530000-pending-cases\">As the Associated Press points out<\/a>, there are 58 immigration courts in 27 states around the country with a total of 301 judges.\u00a0 The problem, of course, is that those 301 judges already face a mountain of 534,000 pending immigration cases which is likely to balloon even higher under Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n<strong>Of 374 authorized immigration judge positions, 301 are filled.<\/strong>\u00a0Fifty more candidates are in various stages of the hiring process, which typically takes about a year, said Kathryn Mattingly, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office for Immigration Review.<br \/><strong>In all, more than 534,000 cases were pending before immigration courts nationwide in February<\/strong>, according to a recent memo from Kelly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The massive backlog means that processing errors are a common occurrence and ultimately just<strong>\u00a0result in illegal immigrants getting a free pass to reside in the country even longer<\/strong>, which is unacceptable to President Trump, and as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-immigration-judges-idUSKBN16H030\">Reuters reports<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Department of Justice is also considering asking judges to sit from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.,\u00a0<\/strong>split between two rotating shifts, to adjudicate more cases, the sources said. A notice about shift times was not included in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Two sources familiar with the Justice Department\u2019s plan said the department would\u00a0<strong>ask more judges to volunteer for one or two month deployments at detention centers.<\/strong>\u00a0If the department cannot find enough volunteers, the department would assign judges to detention centers, the sources said. Judges who volunteer for the first 50 deployments would be sent to detention centers in\u00a0<strong>Adelanto, California; San Diego, Chicago<\/strong>\u00a0and elsewhere, according to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/trump-deploys-dozens-of-judges-to-battle-massive-backlog-of-deportation-cases.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeMarch 12, 2017 In response to the\u00a0\u2018paralysis\u2019 facing immigration courts, dealing with over 500,000 pending cases,\u00a0President Trump is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities\u00a0across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by\u00a0Reuters. As the Associated Press points out, there are 58 immigration courts in 27 states around the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-298715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}