By: Claudio Simione, Staff Writer At the time of writing this, lawmakers are coming towards the deadline to avert a government shutdown.[1] As most know, Congress is responsible for passing appropriations bills in order to provide funding to the federal government.[2] Failure to pass through bills or other resolutions can […]
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Immigration Court Backlog Surpasses One Million Cases
By: Margaret Potter, Staff Writer Two years after taking office, the Trump administration enforced quotas on immigration judges in 2018 requiring each judge “…to clear seven hundred cases a year or get docked points on their performance evaluations.”[1] In addition to this burden on immigration judges, then Attorney General […]