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The Guardian
August 23, 2017

The US deportation system is verging on lawlessness
By Denise Gillman


The 2018 proposed budget reflects this pattern, with the immigration courts receiving only a fraction of the $1.5bn promised to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for increased detention and deportations. This imbalance has led to a bottleneck of more than 600,000 pending cases before the immigration courts, and a state of chaos that negatively impacts all involved. … Rather than recognize and address the incredible pressure placed on immigration courts by the exploding docket, the Trump administration has adopted measures that make a bad situation worse. In fact, immigration court adjudications have actually dropped almost 10% since Donald Trump assumed office.....[based on TRAC Data].


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