Operation Streamline Would Further Stress Already Overburdened Courts: Report

How The Immigration Bill Would Put More Stress On Overburdened Courts

Courts in the Southwest are pushed to their limits to handle all the immigration cases that come their way now — and that could get a lot worse with plans to add Border Patrol agents as part of immigration reform.

Operation Streamline, which the Tucson Sector implemented in 2008, was supposed to fast-track up to 100 prosecutions of immigrants a day.

But five years later, the program is stuck at 70 a day — some days even fewer — because there’s aren’t enough courtrooms, judges or holding space. And that’s not even taking into account nearly $350 million in sequestration cuts.

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