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Many experts familiar with the complex issue of immigration agree the system in the U.S. is broken, including veteran San Diego immigration lawyer Jacob Sapochnick.
Even the Border Patrol agents who are one the front lines of the crumbling system acknowledge its flaws. President of the San Diego Local Border Patrol Union Manny Bayon told 10News the system is so backlogged that it can take up to three to four years to get an immigration hearing. It passed the Senate with both Republican and Democratic support hoping it would prevent the border crisis we're seeing today, but conservatives in the House voted it down.She says there are two broad misconceptions foisted on the public.
“When I started 35 years ago, I think I had about 800 cases on my docket," Judge Marks recalls."By the time I retired two years ago, it was over 4,000, and now many judges have caseloads of 5,000 and above.” The most visible sign of today’s broken system is at the bus stations, airports and transit centers, where the Border Patrol releases thousands of migrants into U.S. cities because there is no other place to put them.“You need to stop catch and release. That's really the big issue right now. You stop catch and release — that sends a message," Bayon says.
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