Mr. President. we had a very fine hearing this morning. I think five Federal judges. and the Department of Justice represented. and a professor. to deal with a problem in our immigration system. Senator CORNYN has rightly said a bill Is a bill is a bill. but what does it say? In Chairman SPECTERs mark. he dealt with a crisis in appeals in immigration. During the course of our committee markup. an amendment was offered that said that wasnt good and whatever. and we struck that reform. So the bill that would be the Judiciary markup bill on the floor does not have any action whatsoever to deal with this problem. Since 2001. we have had a 601percent increase in appeals. Bureau of Appeals. immigration appeals cases. Six times they have increased since the year 2000. It now takes. on average. 27 months for one of those cases to be handled because of the backlog.
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