More backassward unproductive stupidity from the Unforeseen Effects Superstar Trump admin:
“Decisions in immigration court have life-or-death consequences and cannot be managed like an assembly line.”
Immigration judges say the Trump administration’s mandate designed to speed up a clogged immigration court system will have the opposite effect. https://t.co/Cnba63iIgj— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) April 5, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that the country’s immigration judges must complete at least 700 cases annually in order to earn a satisfactory job rating.
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“This is going to invite unnecessary scrutiny and undermine the very integrity of the court,” said Judge A. Ashley Tabaddor, the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges. “Parties who appear before the court will be wondering: ‘Is the judge issuing the decision because she’s trying to meet a deadline or a quota? Or is she really applying her impartial adjudicated powers?’”That assumed rush to judgment could lead to grounds for an appeal of a ruling, Tabaddor said, which she said would have the opposite effect the administration intends.
“It is essentially building an appealable issue into the case, which means that instead of reducing the backlog it is going to increase the backlog,” she said.