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OK. What do we do with those who we determine don't meet the criteria for asylum and are now considered illegal aliens?Detain them in a facility where they would not be separated from their children.
Are we prepared to detain these people for eons before we can hear their case?
This is an older article but I can't imagine it's gotten much better.
https://qz.com/771583/a-record-half-million-cases-are-waiting-to-be-heard-by-us-immigration-courts/
This summer, the backlog of pending cases in the system passed half a million. It is the most that US immigration courts have ever faced. As of July 31, 502,976 immigration applications were waiting to be heard, according to the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which oversees federal immigration courts. The average wait time for an immigration court petitioner is currently two years.