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.

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