Enforcement Overdrive Has Overloaded the Immigration Courts
While President Barack Obama finalizes plans to take executive action on immigration and provide relief to a portion of the nation’s undocumented immigrant population, enforcement overdrive and paltry resources for the immigration court system have caused a significant backlog of cases waiting to be heard. New analysis published today by Center for American Progress experts Marshall Fitz and Philip E. Wolgin illustrates in a series of charts the effects that ramped-up enforcement has had on deportations and processing times for pending cases in the immigration courts.
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