• robocall@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Why doesn’t America hire hundreds more immigration judges to hear all these cases and get the backlog down? Having asylum seekers here for years before their court date is a disservice to them and to Americans as well.

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      9 months ago

      Because undocumented workers are easier to exploit and, by extension, make all workers easier to exploit. And those who exploit the workers fund the politics. They can afford to because of all those workers they exploit.