Fixing this backlog would be very simple if we only had the spine to do it.
Until the shutdown is over, no catch-and-release. Any illegal caught is stacked and packed in whatever detention center or tent city there is within a few miles of where they were caught. Make it like being thrown into a Turkish prison. The word will spread to the illegals, and many will turn around. Once the shutdown is over, deputize a few thousand judges for a week or two. Each person or family will be brought before the judge or deputy judge and asked a few simple questions, and asked to provide documentation verifying their citizenship.
“Are you in this country legally? Show me your passport, or other documentation verifying you are here legally. If you don’t have the documentation, you get a free trip back across the border.”
Build a giant water slide going back across the border, hopefully soon to be back across the border WALL. If they’re not here legally, put them on the water slide and give them a push.
Each judge should be able to process 20 cases per hour, maybe more. Difficult cases are put back in the detention facility awaiting further adjudication. It should take a week to get through the cases, then let the deputy judges go back to whatever they normally do.
Problem solved.
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Immigration case backlog keeps growing as shutdown drags on
‘Some people have been waiting years to have their cases heard,’ immigration attorney says
The partial federal government shutdown has closed most immigration courts, exacerbating the immigration case backlog as judges postpone scores of court cases.
Ashley Tabaddor, the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, said that many immigration judges are on furlough, or unpaid leave, and had to postpone immigration cases, which can take years before they are reheard.
“There is an irony of shutting down the immigration courts when the whole issue on the government shutdown is about immigration,” she said. “The court system should not be used as a political tool.”
In general, and on principal, I support my police, sheriff, and state troopers. However, and here’s the big “but,” when they choose to enforce unconstitutional laws that infringe upon our Constitutional rights, I will NOT support them, and think they should step down lest they become an enemy of the citizenry.
Typically if someone has a problem with what the police are doing, rather than get upset with the police they need to get upset with the legislators that wrote the law. However, when it comes to clearly unconstitutional law, law enforcement officers have a choice. They face the same choice that military members face when given an unlawful order. Do they carry out the order and say they were “just following orders” when the crap hits the fan? Or do they choose not to follow those orders, risking more immediate consequences from their overlords? If the oath you swore mentions something about the Constitution, then the choice in this case is clear.
These New Jersey officers are CHOOSING to make themselves an enemy of the Constitution, and of the citizenry, by willfully denying 2nd, 4th, and 14th Amendment rights, to name a few. Unless confidence in the legal system is restored, and if these encroachments on our liberties continue, what will logically follow is something no one wants to see.
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NJ State Police Attempt To Confiscate Resident’s Guns without a Warrant
NJ State Police Attempt To Confiscate Resident’s Guns without a Warrant.
Millstone Township, New Jersey –-(Ammoland.com)- An Army veteran father says State Police tried to confiscate his firearms without a court order or warrant just because his son was overheard discussing school shooting news with a classmate.
Police said their visit was sparked by a conversation that Leonard Cottrell Jr.’s 13-year-old son had had with another student at the school. Cottrell said he was told his son and the other student were discussing security being lax and what they would have to do to escape a school shooting at Millstone Middle School.
The conversation was overheard by another student, who went home and told his parents, and his mother panicked. The mom then contacted the school, which contacted the State Police, according to Cottrell.
The visit from the troopers came around 10 p.m. on June 14, 2018, Cottrell said, a day after Gov. Phil Murphy signed several gun enforcement bills into law.
After several hours, Cottrell said police agreed not to take the guns but to allow him to move them to another location while the investigation continued.
“They had admitted several times that my son made no threat to himself or other students or the school or anything like that,” he said.
Cottrell said he made it very clear to the police that he was “not going to willingly give up my constitutional rights where there’s no justifiable cause, no warrants, no nothing.”
The troopers searched his son’s room and found nothing, Cottrell said.
“To appease everybody, I had my firearms stored someplace else,” he said. “That way, during the course of the investigation, my son doesn’t have access to them and it’s on neutral ground and everything and everybody’s happy.”
Major Brian Polite, a spokesperson for the New Jersey State Police, stated that the troopers that conducted the investigation determined there was no need for the weapons to be seized. He also said he could not comment on whether the incident was related to the new gun laws.
“In the Garden State, the usual approach is to confiscate first and ask questions later, and victims of this approach often don’t know their rights. In this case, the victim pushed back and confiscation was avoided — but the circumstances surrounding the incident are outrageous. A student expressing concern over lack of security is not a reason to send police to the student’s home — but it might be a reason to send police to the school to keep students and teachers safe” said Scott L. Bach, executive director of the Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs and a member of the NRA board of directors.
Cottrell said if the school had contacted him and talked about what had happened instead of going to the police first, “it would have been worked out right then and there.” He said he also would have understood if he’d gotten a call from the State Police to learn more, instead of the late night visit to his home.
The Wide Awake Patriot 