America’s Most Inefficient Immigration Court Is Finally Set to Improve [PSMag.com]

Samantha Sangenito 9/9/202:17 AM

The small immigration court in Imperial County, California, is arguably the country’s most inefficient. Planted squarely in a county that shares a border with Mexico, it is the only one of its 57 sisters in the country that hasn’t had a permanent sitting judge for over two years.

At a backlog of about 4,000, the Imperial Immigration Court has the second-highest number of pending immigration cases per capita in California (behind only San Francisco). As far as the Department of Justice (DOJ) is concerned, that’s about to change.

[For more of this story, written by Morgan Baskin, go to https://psmag.com/americas-mos...improve-bc9426ccbb2a]

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