Immigration judges were always overworked. Now they’ll be untrained, too

Authors

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Boston University School of LawFollow

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2017

Publisher

The Washington Post

Language

en-US

Abstract

America’s immigration judges have long been overburdened and under-resourced. One immigration judge has compared her job to “doing death-penalty cases in a traffic-court setting.” The stakes are high, while support and procedural protections for noncitizens facing deportation are negligible. It’s no surprise, then, that immigration judges suffer greater stress and burnout than prison wardens or doctors in busy hospitals.

Recommended Citation

Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes, Immigration judges were always overworked. Now they’ll be untrained, too , in The Washington Post (2017).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/121

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/immigration-judges-were-always-overworked-now-theyll-be-untrained-too/2017/07/11/e71bb1fa-4c93-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html