There is a need for more immigration judges and hearing officers and counsel, those sorts of things. And let's reduce the backlog. But What the Trump administration is doing is exactly the opposite, shifting it to complete enforcement and aggressive, extreme, cruel enforcement for that matter, while the backlogs continue to grow because they've shifted resources away from those services. services and those programs. So happy to have a budget conversation, but let's be smart about where we're going to possibly invest more. (03:46–04:02)
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Asserts that the Trump administration focuses on aggressive enforcement, causing immigration case backlogs to grow.
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