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Immigration Attorneys' Perceptions And Attitudes About Delays In Removal Proceeding Hearings, Awa C. Diawara
Immigration Attorneys' Perceptions And Attitudes About Delays In Removal Proceeding Hearings, Awa C. Diawara
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Abstract
Immigration courts in the United Sates are struggling to resolve 610,524 removal
proceedings cases with approximately 330 judges located in 58 immigration courts
nationwide. Due to the limited number of judges, case backlogs have increased steadily,
with the wait time being 854 days in 2017 for the first hearing and much longer for case
resolution. The purpose of this case study was to explore the perceptions and attitudes of
immigration attorneys about delays in removal proceeding hearings in an immigration
court in the southwest. Kettl's transformation of governance theory served as the
theoretical foundation for this study, which explored …