Immigration Courts: Immigration and Border

immigration courts: Judges were previously moved to two immigration detention centres in California, according to Metro News. Trump's executive order on border and immigration enforcement in January says judges should immediately be assigned to immigration detention centres . Many courts are for immigrants who are freed before their cases are heard. The department's Executive Office for Immigration Review said the transfers to four locations in Texas and one each in Louisiana and New Mexico will occur Monday. The clogged immigration courts have gotten less attention than other aspects of Trump's orders, such as construction of a wall on the 2,000-mile border with Mexico and the addition of 5,000 Border Patrol agents and 10,000 Immigration and Customs and Enforcement officers and agents. Jeremy McKinney, a Greensboro, North Carolina, attorney and board member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said transfers to detention centres means longer waits for people who aren't being held. There was a backlog of 542,646 cases at the end of January, including 20,856 people who were being held in custody. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.