Metcalf
interviewed immigration judges across the country in writing «Courting Disaster: Absent attendance and absent enforcement in America's immigration courts ``: «They described a system plunged into turmoil by appointees at the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security who ignored statutes, precedent, and regulation and imposed policies that dramatically increased backlogs and nearly halted adjudication.
The research, carried out over three months, draws on a review of official documents, research and statistical data, as well as 21
interviews with barristers, solicitors,
immigration judges and other specialists.