By N.C. AizenmanWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, March 12, 2010; 11:46 PMThe backlog of deportation, political asylum and other cases awaiting a hearing in federal immigration courts has reached an all-time high even as a record number of judge positions remained unfilled, according to a report released Friday.The analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan research organization at Syracuse University, found that 228,421 cases were awaiting a hearing in the first months of fiscal 2010, which began Oct. 1, up 23 percent since the end of fiscal 2008 and 82 percent higher than 10 years ago.The average wait for a hearing is also longer than ever: an average of 439 days nationwide and as long as 713 days in Los Angeles and 612 days in Boston. Virginia and Maryland are among the 10 states with the longest waits, averaging 478 and 430 days, respectively.Although much of the backlog results from an increase in immigration cases, successive administrations have exacerbated the situation by failing to fill vacancies on the immigration courts, the report found. (In contrast to criminal and civil courts, immigration courts fall under the Justice Department's jurisdiction. Immigration judges, who may decide whether foreign nationals are deportable or admissible, are appointed by the attorney general without need of congressional approval.) More at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031201776.html
This wouldn't be a problem if we just adopted America's traditional policy of free immigration.
>>334743OP here.Free borders? When did that happened before in America's history?
>>334761America had almost totally unrestricted immigration in the 19th century. I recall that bars against Chinese immigration was introduced in the 1880s and restrictions on white immigration wasn't imposed until relatively recently in, like, the 1920s.
>>334743Yea what America have you been living in?
>>334743Unregulated immigration had it's time and that time has passed. I think very few people would be in favor of opening this country up to anyone who can afford a boat ride or a plane ticket . .. and besides, we don't have the manufacturing jobs that these people typically worked in anymore. Mostly it would just end up being disasterous for the people who came over.
>>334773America as a society was also completely different, and those immigrants either became extremely poor (which would put a huge financial burden on us now), or moved out west to settle the frontier (something that we dont have anymore)
>>334761>>334775You ngrs need to open a fucking American history book right the fuck now. . . this country was made great by waves and waves of virtually unmitigated immigration from every major country in europe as well as china.
