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Immigration, i can ask you a couple of questions that would probably help get to an immigration agreement. the backlog of pending cases in immigration courts nationwide have been growing exponentially since 2008 from fewer than 200,000 cases in 2008 to more than 800,000. border patrol is currently apprehending almost 50,000 aliens each month, a certain percentage that ends up in that same pending case backlog. in the face of this backlog, what steps is doj taking to ensure that its immigration judges can efficiently and effectively address this backlog in a fair and efficient manner? >> thank ...

Immigration, i can ask you a couple of questions that would probably help get to an immigration agreement. the backlog of pending cases in immigration courts nationwide have been growing exponentially since 2008 from fewer than 200,000 cases in 2008 to more than 800,000. and border patrol is currently apprehending almost 50,000 aliens each month. a certain percentage of which ends up in the pending case backlog. in the face of the backlog, what steps is d.o.j. to make sure its immigration judges can efficiently adjudicate cases and reduce the backlog of pending cases in a fair and efficient ma...

Now, there is a 60,000 case backlog in the immigration court which we won't get to. we only have in our budget to deport 400,000 so how does that. address 11,000 people? >> i can tell you this, this is the dirty little secret the democrats do. they don't find enough bedsan or dollars to deport people, and if donald trump wants $5 billion for the wall, add another $5 billion to deport all the people in the criminal element. hector, what do you folks go through when you have somebody who's coming across?le how do you arrest someone who's already been deported? >> without proper physical barriers...

Let's start with everybody and then we will work backward. >> that's where we are working now, there is a 60,000 case backlog in the immigration court which we won't get to. we only have in our budget to deport 400,000 so how does that address 11,000 people? >> i can tell you this, this is the dirty little secret the democrats do. they don't find enough beds or dollars to deport people, and if donald trump wants $5 billion for the wall, add another $5 billion to deport all the people in the criminal element. hector, what do you folks go through when you have somebody who's coming across? how d...

That ultimately was made that they could not be held on to or detained for more than 20 days. whether they are accompanied or not accompanied. what congress wants is for the flores agreement to be overturned and for an extended period of time to allow for them to go through the judicial process without being separated. do i have that right? >> that's correct. we want these prosecutions to be expedited. some places they're occurring in as little as seven days. if they are, for example, turning around and asking for political asylum in the united states, that is a process with a 600,000 case bac...