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    Immigration judges behind on caseload

    Immigration judges behind on caseload

    By PETE YOST
    Associated Press
    November 1, 2012

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is not keeping up with the caseload in federal immigration courts, even with an increase in the number of judges handling the cases, the Justice Department inspector general reported Thursday.

    In a report, Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said record-keeping by the immigration courts is so flawed that it is difficult to draw conclusions about why the courts are unable to reduce the volume of cases.

    From 2006 to 2010, the number of new immigration cases rose from 308,652 to 325,326. At the same time, the number of proceedings the immigration courts completed declined about 11 percent, from 324,040 in 2006 to 287,207 in 2010.

    During that period, the government added 27 more immigration judges, boosting the total to 238. Seventeen of the judges were hired during 2010. In a footnote, the report said new judges undergo extensive training and may not have the performance level of more experienced judges.

    In an analysis for Aug. 3, 2010, the IG found that 47,819 removal proceedings had been pending three years or more. Most of the cases pending for over three years involved illegal immigrants who were not detained and who had filed challenges seeking to remain in the United States.

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    Illegals may stay by filing bogus refugee claims, etc., but jobs are the lure which attracs illegals to our country. Universal E-Verify, which should prevent illegals from getting jobs in the first place, is the only tool that will work long term.
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    IG Report: US Immigration Courts Inefficient, Overwhelmed

    Thursday, 01 Nov 2012 02:15 PM
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    U.S. immigration courts are inefficient and beset by delays, falling behind in processing proposed deportations in recent years despite having more judges hearing these cases, the Justice Department's inspector general said on Thursday.

    The courts completed 324,000 proceedings in the 2006 fiscal year but only 287,000 in the 2010 fiscal year, a report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz said. The number of immigration judges grew from 211 to 238 during that time period, according to the report.

    The Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review, which runs the immigration courts, "should take all possible steps to maximize the use of the resources it has received," the report said.

    The immigration office said in response that it has not had the money to study ways to improve efficiency but that it will begin a study soon.

    The office also said it would give new training to judges on how to respond to foreign nationals' requests for case delays - a major cause of slower proceedings, according to the report.

    Numbers in 2011 showed improvement, the immigration office said, but the inspector general's office said it has not verified those statistics.

    Immigration judges hear deportation cases in about 120 locations throughout the United States.

    The judges put a priority on cases in which a foreign national is detained for a crime or other reason - a priority that shows up in the time it takes to finish a deportation case, the report said.

    Cases in which the foreign national is detained lasted on average 48 days, while cases in which the person was not detained went on for an average of 526 days, according to a sample of cases reviewed by the inspector general.

    "Cases, especially those for non-detained aliens, can take long periods to complete, which crowds court calendars and delays processing of new cases," the report said.

    The non-detainee cases included people asking for asylum.

    The issue of illegal immigration is hotly debated in the United States. There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country, most of them Hispanics.

    Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who were brought into the United States as children will be able to avoid deportation and get work permits under an order in June by President Barack Obama. (Reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Will Dunham)

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