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Immigration Courts 'Operating In Crisis Mode,' Judges Say

February 23, 2015 (1 min read)

"Even before this past summer's surge of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, the immigration courts were already clogged, says Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges.  "What is an adjective that describes crisis squared?" she asks.  "Crisis times crisis. We have been operating in crisis mode for years."  There were too many cases for too few judges, and adding in the cases of the unaccompanied minors only made matters worse. There are currently more than 429,000 cases pending in the courts with just 223 judges." - Richard Gonzales, NPR, Feb. 23, 2015.