‘Dysfunctional’ immigration courts need money, judges

U.S. immigration courts are “dysfunctional” and need more money, judges and new technology, according to a new report. The nonpartisan think tank Migration Policy Institute published “Breaking the Cycle of Dysfunction at the U.S. Immigration Courts” on Thursday. It found that U.S. immigration courts have been in a crisis for decades now. “They have been struggling to keep up with the number of cases that have been filed. And there’s simply not enough judges to handle all of them. But it’s really reached a crescendo. And now the courts have 3.8 million pending deportation cases. Far more than judges are able to work through,” immigration policy analyst Kathleen Bush-Johnson of the Migration Policy Institute tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez in the latest episode of Border Report Live.