L.A. Immigration Court caseload soars

The number of foreigners landing in Los Angeles Immigration Court has surged in recent years, while the number of judges has remained about the same, causing crushing caseloads and lengthy delays, the L.A. Times' Anna Gorman reports this morning.

Expanded immigration enforcement, including the ongoing search for illegal immigrants in county jails, is causing much of the rise, according to judges, attorneys and experts.

"I don't think it's possible for a court to implode from weight, but we may see," said former L.A. Immigration Judge Gilbert T. Gembacz, who retired last month after more than a decade on the bench.

Read on about the soaring number of immigration cases here.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City

Comments

[paulobak]

US immigration caseload has nothing to do with a border fence. USCIS procedures are for people who immigrate LEGALLY, not for people who hop over a fence.

Study and learn about an issue before developing a passionate and hateful opinion.

[Carracticus]

The case loads in Los Angeles county, has much to do with our open border, Sanctuary city' laws and Special order 40. It no longer protects citizens from iillegal alien crime. Death is on the streets and highways daily, that's why law abiding citizens stay behind locked doors. The mayor needs to be recalled and all other pro-illegal alien city administrators, who have made a mockery of our laws. The federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) if enacted goes after the predatory business, so that the pouring of poor illegal aliens will terminate at the original planned fence. American taxpayers carry the enormous burden of supporting financially people who broke our laws.

I'm sure its not being built to original specifications, as the Democratic leadership has seen to that. At its inception, the border fence was (TWO) fences parallel to each other, with a no mans land in between. Inside the perimeter fences was a graded road for US Border Patrol to use for speedy detainment of drug smugglers, illegal aliens caught between the two obstacles. Originally designed by Rep. Duncan hunter (R-CA) it would have achieved its goal, as the his first project stretching from Mexican national border into San Diego. Alas, the Democrats have started gutting the fence construction. President Bush has recalled the National Guard and leaving a thin, resilient line of border agents, to stop the never ending millions fleeing poverty in third world countries. Like always gullible Americans have been sold a 'bill of goods" that will never stop the occupational armies of cheap labor. Obviously, the Bush Administration, House leader and her household, have no thought for the American people and their jobs. Otherwise the original wall would have been built, where only the athletic foreign national would have scaled the last high-rise fence. GOOGLE GRASSFIRE, NUMBERSUSA, LIBERTY POST & AMERICAN PATROL for facts.

Footnote: Democrats are trying to enact a law, against 'Free Speech' The FAIRNESS DOCRINE, is to muffle the people who voice their opinion, about the travesty of our laws. The 2nd Amendment is a sacred right of every citizen and should not be violated by communist inspired politicians. There is a petition at:

http://www.grassfire.net/410/petition.asp?PID=17343351