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Months. how could this be done? what do you do? these are people that exhausted all the options and not leaving, right? >> yeah, there's 900,000 people on the nondetained docket. when i was with the agency in september, we asked the department of justice to put together a rocket docket. it's important to have consequences when people break the law. the justice department put a docket together. they've heard thousands of cases. 90% in the cohort did not go to their hearing. they were noticed by ice to come in and get right with the process. many of them did not. thousands of them did not. now t...

Those that are encountered at the border and detained and arrested claim some form of asylum. ultimately that causes those folks to be put into the immigration court system and then requires that a hearing be held by an immigration judge. and meanwhile, most of these folks, those 800,000 that are pending, are not part of the detained docket. they are part of the released docket. and those cases take longer. the ones that are not detained, the nondetained docket, and they have caused since 2008 that number to go dramatically up. what we have done about that situation is general sessions and i h...