The urgent need for immigration judges to handle the flood of over 57,000 unaccompanied children who have crossed the Southern border of the United States since October is adding to the strains on an already swamped immigration system in New York and the rest of the country.
At a time when the nation’s busiest immigration courts have been dealing with unprecedented backlogs that have delayed cases for years, the anticipated relief for those courts in the form of new judgeships is being shaped by the demands of the border crisis.
