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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Aug. 30, 2008

A System At Its Breaking Point

Just as immigration judges are making Herculean efforts to keep an impossibly overburdened system on track, they are demoralized by having been subjected to ridicule and unfair aspersions on the corps' integrity, writes Dana Leigh Marks. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Dana Leigh Marks
This article appears on Page 6

      The treatment of the immigration courts, currently housed in the Department of Justice, deserves serious scrutiny for many reasons.
      The fact that the Department of Justice has reportedly increased its attorney staff for the Office of Immigration Litigation by 100 percent while the number of immigration judges has remained...

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