HHS could find 50 immigration lawyers they could hire as "special masters," set up "court rooms" in temp housing (trailers) and run through 50 families a day TIMES 50.
I did Medicaid and disability hearings before administrative judges in ******* hotel rooms back in the day, and there was no due process problem. And I represented the citizens not the state.
Trump administration may seek to detain migrant families longer than previously allowed
Expeditious deportations would be much more effective as a deterrent. Flood them with examples of people who wasted extraordinary time and money trying to cross illegally, and fewer people will be inclined to do the same. By keeping these people in the system for years on end, their neighbors back home are given the mistaken impression that immigrating illegally works.
Oh I agree. We can legally NOW send back any family detained within 100 miles of border within 14 (or20?) days of their detention because we presume they are "newly arrived." Trump unilaterally and for political purposes stopped doing that and put children in cages because Stephen Miller and Ole Jeff thought that was a winner ... and it was with white supremicists. It disgusted most of us, however.
We should use expedited removal, and Obama should be given credit for doing so.
Deported Without Seeing A Judge: One of the Worst Parts of the Immigration System
But that does nothing for people who are detained and who have been here illegally and made it past the 100 mile point
But my post had more to do with the "catch and release" folks Obama ordered just released into society with a "promise" from them that they and their kids would show up at a future court date months or years down the line. That's what understandably set off Ole Jeff. It's like having a law and not enforcing it.
To be fair to Obama, he only did this after the more recent Flores decision told him he couldn't hold families indefinitely. He actually had facilities built that were sort of like motels for families ... only with fences. Then the court told him he couldn't hold them. I think the Court was wrong to put such a short holding period on it, since the people were in no hurry themselves, but it is what it is.
We could deport 40 families a day per "special master" or new judge. Trump didn't like it because it would actually afford these people the due process they are legally entitled to, and some might get legal status as refugees, but that is also the law, and law should be enforced. But hire 50 judges and put them in cheap modular/trailers and work the backlog of cases to the tune of 1000 per week or so. Imo when people in other countries see laws being enforced they'll stay home, where they belong ... unless they have some good reason to think they won't be shipped back and have even less to go back to than they have now.
