Peter1469
06-08-2017, 08:32 AM
GAO: 437,000 deportation cases backlogged, hearings delayed to 2022 (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gao-437000-deportation-cases-backlogged-hearings-delayed-to-2022/article/2625313)
The government's processing of illegal immigrants has broken down as the number of backlogged court cases has grown to a ratio of 1,456 per judge, prompting some courts to schedule deportation cases as far out as February 2022, according to a new Government Accountability Office assessment. (http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/685022.pdf)
The audit agency tabulated a total of 437,000 pending cases, double what it was in 2006. What's more, the normal wait time for illegals to face a judge has grown from 198 days to 404 days.
But an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies (http://cis.org/arthur/gao-exposes-massive-increase-immigration-court-backlog) found that in some of the 58 immigration courts that employ about 300 immigration judges the backlog has become so bad that hearing dates are being set as far out as 2022.
CIS pulled this nugget out of the 153-page GAO report that highlights the backlog issue:
That is ridiculous. Many categories of non-citizens don't get hearings. Ship those out immediately.
In his analysis, Arthur suggested that some of the backlog can also be blamed on the judges granting multiple case continuances. He wrote:
"One of the main reasons why IJs are taking more time to complete cases today than they did 10 years ago is an increase in the number of continuances that IJs have granted over that period. As the GAO noted (logically): ‘cases that experience more continuances take longer to complete.' After reviewing 3.7 million continuance records from FY 2006 through FY 2015, GAO concluded that continuances increased by 23 percent from FY 2006 to FY 2015 with ‘the percentage of completed cases which had multiple continuances' also increasing during that period. Most critically, the cases in which the largest number of continuances that GAO identified were issued, those with ‘four or more continuances,' increased from 9 percent of cases completed in FY 2006 to 20 percent of cases completed in FY 2015. Those continuances made an impact, as GAO found: ‘[C]ases that were completed in [FY] 2015 and had no continuances took an average of 175 days to complete. In contrast, cases with four or more continuances took an average of 929 days to complete' that year."
Stop delaying these cases- rule and ship out the ones we aren't keeping.
The government's processing of illegal immigrants has broken down as the number of backlogged court cases has grown to a ratio of 1,456 per judge, prompting some courts to schedule deportation cases as far out as February 2022, according to a new Government Accountability Office assessment. (http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/685022.pdf)
The audit agency tabulated a total of 437,000 pending cases, double what it was in 2006. What's more, the normal wait time for illegals to face a judge has grown from 198 days to 404 days.
But an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies (http://cis.org/arthur/gao-exposes-massive-increase-immigration-court-backlog) found that in some of the 58 immigration courts that employ about 300 immigration judges the backlog has become so bad that hearing dates are being set as far out as 2022.
CIS pulled this nugget out of the 153-page GAO report that highlights the backlog issue:
That is ridiculous. Many categories of non-citizens don't get hearings. Ship those out immediately.
In his analysis, Arthur suggested that some of the backlog can also be blamed on the judges granting multiple case continuances. He wrote:
"One of the main reasons why IJs are taking more time to complete cases today than they did 10 years ago is an increase in the number of continuances that IJs have granted over that period. As the GAO noted (logically): ‘cases that experience more continuances take longer to complete.' After reviewing 3.7 million continuance records from FY 2006 through FY 2015, GAO concluded that continuances increased by 23 percent from FY 2006 to FY 2015 with ‘the percentage of completed cases which had multiple continuances' also increasing during that period. Most critically, the cases in which the largest number of continuances that GAO identified were issued, those with ‘four or more continuances,' increased from 9 percent of cases completed in FY 2006 to 20 percent of cases completed in FY 2015. Those continuances made an impact, as GAO found: ‘[C]ases that were completed in [FY] 2015 and had no continuances took an average of 175 days to complete. In contrast, cases with four or more continuances took an average of 929 days to complete' that year."
Stop delaying these cases- rule and ship out the ones we aren't keeping.