4---Even if it gets to the courts, the third plank still solves.
Straut-Eppsteiner 23[Holly Straut-Eppsteiner is an Immigration Policy Analyst at the Congressional Research Service. 7/28/2023, "Immigration Judge Hiring and Projected Impact on the Immigration Courts Backlog," Congressional Research Service, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47637 aawh] * ”IJs” refers to “immigration judges”
Based on the assumptions and averages used in the analysis, hiring 300 or more additional IJs (bringing the total number of IJs to 949) would begin to reduce the backlog—meaning that at this level, the IJ corps would be expected to complete more cases than EOIR receives in a given fiscal year. Hiring 300 IJs, however, likely would not fully clear the backlog in the observed 10-year timeframe (i.e., by FY2033). 28 Under these projections, an additional 700 IJs (1,349 total) would be the minimum number needed to fully clear the backlog by FY2032, holding all other factors constant.