Immigration judges are bewildered by the DOJ’s decision to slash legal guidance for detainees

Leti Volpp quoted by Pacific Standard, April 18, 2018

“Limiting the access of immigrants to due process through defunding the Legal Orientation Program, through creating judicial quotas, or through mass deportations, will not reduce backlogs. As we have seen in the past, less process at the immigration judge level results in more appeals to federal court,” says … Leti Volpp. … “The best way to reduce the immigration court backlog would be to reduce how many immigrants are issued with notices to appear in the first place.”