National Association of Immigration Judges

The Justice Department’s immigration arm sent judges a morning news briefing that included a blog post from a virulently anti-immigration website

Immigration judges are accusing the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions of undermining a Philadelphia judge’s authority by having cases removed from his court

President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration have had reverberations throughout the federal government. They’ve drastically changed the way Border Patrol and Immigration officers do their jobs. The changes also heavily impacted immigration judges, delaying many of their thousands of pending cases by as much as five years. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, explained just how overloaded the court systems already are.

The Justice Department is appointing temporary immigration judges to help handle the surge of unaccompanied minors who are crossing the Southwest border. The Executive Office for Immigration review has so many cases that it’s created a backlog for the 243 full-time immigration judges. In part two of her interview, Judge Dana Leigh Marks joined Tom Temin and Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to explain it’s not just undocumented immigrants filling the dockets.