Can I ask you a question?

What is your case load look like right now?

I have about, I believe, about 2,500 cases on my docket.

Ashley Tabidor is an immigration judge in Los Angeles.

She's actually president of the Union representing those judges.

I deal primarily with unaccompanied minors, the children on their 18 who are identified

or apprehended at the border or shortly after entering the United States and they're

found at that point to be without a parent.

The kids on Judge Tabidor's docket, they are just a fraction of the hundreds of thousands

of people waiting in immigration court limbo.

And as if handling that daunting case load wasn't enough?

The administration has now introduced quotas and deadlines to judges as a condition of

keeping their employment.

So now the judges are even more stressed and anxious about wanting to keep their job

and worrying about are they doing enough cases fast enough.

So yes, the sort of the situation at this point is quite challenging.

Each morning Judge Tabidor gets this reminder of just how challenging this all is when

she logs onto her computer and sees this dashboard.

The dashboard looks a little bit like a speed car odometer where you have five or six or

seven odometer and most of the odometer is red with a sliver of yellow and a small

sliver of green.

These little odometers, they're keeping track of whether or not she's hitting her numbers,

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