Allergra’s great lede says it all.
One of the policies President Donald Trump rolled out soon after entering office to chip away at the staggering backlog of cases languishing in the country’s immigration courts appears to be having the opposite effect, immigration judges, attorneys and experts say.
I am great. All the other Presidents were incompetent. I have accomplished more in 9 months than Washington, Lincoln and FDR combined in their entire administrations. I give myself 12 out of 10.
They even suck at evil.
Typical prosecutorial strategy. Go for the low-hanging fruit and punt on the difficult ones. It gives a better completion rate. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
“When you compare completion rates from a non-detained docket to a detained docket you’re going to be comparing apples to oranges,” said National Association of Immigration Judges President Dana Marks, who serves as an immigration judge in San Francisco.
And that’s what Trump’s doing every time he compares himself to past presidents. Guess who’s the orange?
Trump is totally great, bigly… at failing.
" detained immigrants, who are picked up along the border, often have no legal representation and are more inclined to waive their rights, vastly accelerating the speed at which their cases are processed."
There is no reason to give them representation. The best thing is to boot them as fast as possible. Obama’s “permiso” gave false promises to illegals, bringing more them in. If new arrivals get booted immediately, that will make others considering the criminal entry into the US the new normal - you’re gonna get booted, the trials are formalities, and all those lies about asylum are going to be ignored.