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n26 Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Backlogs in Immigration Courts Expand, Resulting Wait Times Grow (June 2009), available at http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/208/. The study also reported an increase in the number of law
clerks. On average, slightly fewer than four immigration judges share one law clerk.Id.n26 Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Backlogs in Immigration Courts Expand, Resulting Wait Times Grow (June 2009), available at http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/208/. The study also reported an increase in the number of law
clerks. On average, slightly fewer than four immigration judges share one law clerk.Id.
n258 A 2009 report estimates that immigration prosecutions are up about 250% from 2004 levels. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Immigration Prosecutions for February 2009, available at http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins
/immigration/monthlyfeb09/fil/. Operation Streamline increased the caseload of one federal judge on the southwestern border to approximately two times more cases than other district court judges. Russell Goldman, What's Clogging the Courts? Ask America's
Busiest Judge, ABC News, July 23, 2008, available at http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=5429227&page=3. See also Solomon Moore, Push on Immigration Crimes is Said to Shift Focus, N.Y. TIMES, Jan. 12, 2009, at A1 (reporting on
enforcement priorities shifting towards immigration crimes and accompanying demoralizing effects on federal prosecutors).
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