Several years ago the American Judges Association passed a resolution calling for reform of how immigration judges are treated. The work they do is important. They are for many people the first face of the American justice system. And yet they are not given the independence they deserve and many times have crushing caseloads. Time to fix our immigration courts, broken for decades. We need to hire more immigration judges, drop hundreds of thousands of low-level cases from the docket and root out Trump hard-liners embedded within the system. THE NEW YORK TIMES