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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]POTUS is correct on this one. [/quote]

Yes, although his math is off by a decimal place.[/quote]

NPR confirms Trump is right, through the data in this NPR article:

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372681/trump-immigration-judges-fired

- 700 current immigration judges (IJs)

- judges review on average 500 to 600 cases per year (let’s say it’s 600)

- 700 x 600 = 420,000 cases reviewed per year.

- backlog of deportation (removal) cases = 4,000,000 (4 million)

- 4 million divided by 420,000 cases per year =

9.5 years to review all 4 million of the current removal cases in the backlog.

However:  that 9.5 years would only work if the backlog were STATIC, meaning we hermetically sealed off our border, and the 4 million case backlog did not grow at all.  We are still allowing  hundreds of thousands of visa holders and visitors into the USA every month, and some will become “illegal aliens.”  Others still sneak over the border.

It will take far in excess of 9.5 years to even come close to reducing the 4 million case backlog which Biden/Harris largely created.[/quote]

His math may be fine.  His logic/ understanding of how these hearing work IRL is not.  A family with two adults and three kids is five immigrants, but generally one hearing.  You should probably divide your number by 3.   But regardless, I take issue with him firing the judges we have, rather than hiring more if it’s such a priority.  [/quote]

It is necessary to have judges that follow the law, rather than the ones Biden hired who let everyone in.[/quote]

I posted a long thing up thread about how ALJs are selected. Having actually been through the process. In which I was specifically  told that I’d I discussed my political beliefs in any interview, application point or essay, I would be disqualified.  These are not partisan, political appointments. They are chosen based solely on a score, that comes from a series of tests that look at knowledge, management, logic and writing.  The job opens every few years, qualified people are listed in order of score and offered positions as they open in that order.

NOTE: it is VERY LIKELY/ ALMOST CERTAIN that for at least the first year or two of the Biden Admin, they were pulling from a List based on the test administered when Trump was POTUS. And that any ALJs hired now were tested under Biden. But it doesn’t matter. Because these aren’t ideological jobs. [/quote]

Thank you for this information. We need more fact-based posts rather than ones based on made up or alternative facts. [/quote]

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