Mr. Chairman. one of the great problems that we have today in the whole area of asylum and adjudications deals with the opportunities for lengthening and carrying on the process instead of getting to a final resolution. We have 170.000plus cases backlogged today of asylum seekers in our structure. The bill. as it is now structured. attempts to get at some of the mechanical problems of dealing with this. It sets up an administrative law judge system and a U.S. Immigration Board to try to expedite the handling of both the asylum cases and the routine exclusion and deportation matters. The backlog problems that we see often come from class action suits where individuals get involved in groups to bring about a delay in the process. Whenever you have a class action suit. it stops the entire adjudication process dead in its tracks.
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