Shot in the Dark

Workload

Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:

There are 3.8 million immigration cases pending.  There are 685 immigration judges nationwide meaning each judge has 5547 pending cases to hear. Not counting new cases.  The case backlog is years. 

President Trump wanted to hire more immigration judges to deal with the backlog.  I was thinking of applying.  I have no immigration law experience but I have lots of courtroom expertise including presiding over hearings. 

If complex subjects like admiralty and bankruptcy can be taught, immigration can.  Not every case demands a learned treatise. 

Okay so I’m not the best qualified but if you are hiring a boatload of people I might still qualify. Hour many are they hiring?

115. Nationwide. Brings the total up to 800. 

So we have reduced each judges caseload to 4,750?  Shaving 800 cases off each judges backlog is supposed to fix the problem?

That won’t reduce the backlog. That will only perpetuate it.  The system IS the problem. What a farce.

Joe Doakes

 

It’s only a farce if it was intended to work in the first place.

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3 responses to “Workload”

  1. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Joe,
    Back in about June or July, I recall seeing an ad to recruit anyone with adjudication experience, to help with that backlog. There was a three week paid training program. The entire explanation of what they would be doing, etc. was in that ad. Unfortunately, I changed PCs for Windows 11 (my old laptop couldn’t be upgraded to it) and I can’t find it now.

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  3. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Yes, the workload is horrendous, but it strikes me that deportation is offense, and border security is defense. Championships are won on defense, and so are finances, immigration, and such. So while the backlog is years, an effective border wall that isn’t dismantled shortens it. Let’s be patient.

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