I'd really like to see the immigration courts and judges expanded from here to high heaven, and custom borders staffed or enlarged at the border entry spots in one of the Dems infrastructure bill.
It's my understanding that once an asylum seeker gets their legally required hearing in immigration court, the courts reject about 90% of them who do not meet the requirements for being a Refugee, and are deported.
This causes all the problems we have at the border, imho.
First, without enough courts and judges, it's taking months to a year for their legally required court hearing, this makes keeping them in prisons or camps awaiting their hearings near impossible because it takes that long....there is not enough space in these holding cells with all of these caravans of people, continually trying to seek asylum.
So, we then get them a court date, 6 months down the road, and bus them to Charities in different states, who find homes and even jobs, for them, while they wait.
This then gives the asylum seeker, a chance to basically, disappear...before their court date....if they want to do so.
The whole process is really messy, and loose as a goose imo.... All because we don't have enough immigration courts and judges to handle the load.
I also think this is known to all of these caravans of asylum seekers coming here or sent here by other poor nations.... They know if they flood the border with thousands, causing everything to back up, they'll get a chance to be in country for a while, and/or have the time to disappear in to our wordwork.
Well, this might be a pipe dream of mine, but if we have enough immigration judges ready, for a huge caravan of asylum seekers, and their court dates could be in just a week or two, instead of 6 months, we could keep them in holding cells at the border for the couple of weeks instead of having to release them, until the court rejects 90% or even 80%, and deports them.
If we could reject those who don't qualify as refugees quickly, like within a week or two, and they are shipped back to where they came from quickly....the WORD will get around their town that the months long trial and tribulation of a trip to get here, will only immediately...land them back where they started....
...then fewer and fewer people will make the thousand or two thousand mile trip here....again, imo.