D.C. And L.A. Getting More ‘Border Children’
The Los Angeles Times is breaking down where the children caught illegally crossing the border are going, noting that cities like Washington with large populations from the originating countries are...
View ArticleSoCal Civil Court Backlogs With Child Immigration Cases
Southern California Public Radio has an important new piece on how Los Angeles courts are handling the immigration crisis of unaccompanied Central American children. Reporter Dorian Merina quotes one...
View ArticleS.F. Stepping Up In Border-Child Crisis
Citing its tradition of being a “Sanctuary City” for immigration, documented or not, San Francisco has become the first California city to provide funding for attorneys representing immigrants facing...
View ArticleImmigration ‘Rocket Docket’ Raises Ire In S.F.
Local officials in San Francisco are raising issues with the Department of Justice “rocket docket” for unaccompanied Central American minors who were caught or surrendered to authorities at the U.S....
View ArticleA.G. Holder Exiting Amid ‘Unfinished’ Work With Immigration Courts
While praising his actions to bring the first Justice Department action against states over immigration laws, a leading immigration activist says U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder – or his replacement...
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Immigration Courts Face Obama Actions
President Obama’s executive actions on immigration will impact the civil courts system, but it’s hard to know how soon that will happen – or how much the impact will be. Southern California public...
View ArticleJudge: 2-Year Waits Triple In Budget-Cut Courts
The number of Los Angeles County civil cases facing delays of more than two years has tripled in the wake of budget cuts, according to Carolyn Kuhl, Los Angeles Superior Court’s presiding judge, She...
View ArticleCalifornia, Texas Lead In Immigration Court Delays
It may the one of the few places where Texas does not mind being second to California: immigration case backlog. A Houston Chronicle newspaper report notes that “… the stack of cases at Texas’...
View ArticleL.A. Times Calls Out Congress Over Immigration Court Backlog
In a major editorial, the Los Angeles Times is calling upon Congress to fix the immigration court backlog and offers some compelling numbers in the process: “… over the last 10 years, the workload of...
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Obama Admin. Fighting To Keep Family Detention Centers
As reported in Politico on 8/7/15: US citizens Esmeralda Tepetate, 10, with her brother Sebastian, 2, whose parents are originally from Mexico, holds a sign that says “stop separating families” during...
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NYT Notes ‘Border Kid’ Crisis Is Not Over, But Has Moved
As reported by NPR: Detainees sleep and watch television in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed at a U.S. Customs facility in Nogales,...
View ArticleMaine Hotel Case Illustrates Civil Justice Rationing
It seems a routine case: A town planning board approves a new Hampton Hotel but a resident thinks it was done improperly and failed to properly address questions like how tall the buildings would be....
View ArticleRights Group Notes Immigration Courts Backed Up 3 Years
The Human Rights First advocacy group is noting its new study indicating that the U.S. Immigration Courts are backed up for about three years now, and it’s only getting worst. The Courthouse News in...
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Supreme Court Vacancy Is Tip Of Judicial Backlog Crisis
Photo Credit, Kansas City Star report, 4/12/16 McClatchy’s news service has an explainer piece about the rationing of federal judicial appointments. It begins with an 82-year-old judge, the...
View ArticleFlorida Court District Says Divorce Hearing Can Take A Year
Courts nationwide are facing serious rationing, but a Tampa-area regional justice system is offering some details of its crisis. The info came as county commissioners are debating new facilities. But...
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Advocate Outlines Woes As Immigration Court Backlog Moves Past 500,000
Photo Credit: Francis Riviera In an opinion piece in The Hill newspaper in Washington D.C., a San Antonio immigration advocate outlines a recent milestone in the immigration court backlog: “In numbers...
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Report Outlines Why NY Has Huge Immigration Court Backlog
Photo credit: WNYC Audio Report, 1/17/17 New York’s WNYC radio has an excellent report on why the Big Apple’s immigration courts are backed up, noting that more than a half-million cases are pending...
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SF-Based Immigration Courts Getting Testy
Official seal of the Executive Office of Immigration Review, which operates the U.S. immigration courts. The federal immigration courts, already over-booked with a half-million pending cases and the...
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Trump Immigration Crackdown Hits Backlogged Courts
Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement / AP BuzzFeed is deep-diving into the problems of a backlogged immigration courts system as President Trump gears up his enforcement and...
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No resolution expected for ‘Dreamers’ by end of year
Photo by John Gastaldo/Reuters as included in the PBS report on Dec 5, 2017. The status of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — commonly known as Dreamers — likely will...
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