Amid turmoil on the border, new DOJ policy encourages immigration judges to cut corners

Russell Wheeler on the Brookings blog offers a big picture look at how the Trump administration family separation policy is part of a bigger immigration enforcement picture.  “The Trump administration’s policy of separating children from parents who cross the southern border seeking asylum—and Attorney General Sessions’ limiting the grounds on which to grant asylum—draw attention again to the nation’s immigration courts, where many asylum claims get adjudicated. At the same time, the administration is making it more difficult for them to deal with non-citizens who claim that our complicated immigration laws allow them to remain here by imposing uniform case-completion quotas and deadlines on all immigration judges.”  For further analysis, click the link above.

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