Immigration Judges Not Meeting DOJ Production Goals, House Told

More than half of the Justice Department’s immigration judges didn’t meet case processing goals during the first year that a new production quota was in place, showing that quotas are a bad way to measure performance, the president of the judges’ union told a House panel.

The numbers of cases processed by individual judges during fiscal year 2019 varied widely—from 36 cases to more than 2,000 cases—because of the unique facts and circumstances of each case, said Ashley Tabaddor, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges. Tabaddor appeared before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Tabaddor’s testimony ...