Dana Leigh Marks, President, National Association of Immigration Judges

President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration have had reverberations throughout the federal government. They've drastically changed the way Border ...

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.

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