𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝟮𝟬 𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗝𝗨𝗗𝗚𝗘𝗦 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗟𝗢𝗪𝗦 𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦~~𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣/𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗞 𝗪𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗝𝗨𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗟𝗘

                                  

While I've no doubt government can be trimmed, streamlined, made more cost-effective, but those cuts have to be made with surgical skill, not risking the health, safety or constitutional rights of Americans.

The Trump/Musk wrecking ball approach to trimming government waste is not only juvenile, it will create more problems than it solves.

For example, the recent firing of 20 U.S. immigration judges will add to delays for an already overwhelmed immigration system.

There are over 3.7 million backlogged immigration cases, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, and immigration lawyers say the removal of these judges come at a time when the system is suffering from the most cases ever in history.

“I’ve got master hearings, that are the initial hearings, that are not till like, two or three years from now and then after that, it’s going to be a few more years before you would have the final hearing individual so, I mean, you could be talking in some jurisdictions upwards of six, seven plus years for a case to be adjudicated,” stated William Brooks, a Houston immigration lawyer, “so how things stand, the last thing you would want to do is eliminate judges.”

Thirteen immigration judges who were not yet sworn in were notified they had been dismissed on Friday along with five assistant chief immigration judges from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the Associated Press reports.

The cuts come as the new Trump administration is overhauling government and evaluating efficiency of offices.

There are about 735 immigration judges nationwide; that’s about 6,000 immigration cases per judge.