“Just another excuse for not solving the problem now, in hopes that they can use them for votes later.”
Then you must not really understand how government works or fails to work, because courts that do not exist cannot hear cases and resolve the huge immigration backlog. Congress has to actually pay to establish courts to deal with the asylum and other immigration problems that they themselves created. The president, even if his heart was in the right place (it’s not of course), cannot force immigration courts to speed up the process. The government requires $ to make things happen, and even when they have plenty of $, they’re still terribly inefficient.
Like I wrote earlier, I believe immigration law permits people to enter the country, surrender to border patrol, and apply for asylum. They are then given a hearing date which might be years later. I might wish this weren’t so, but if it’s the law, government officials cannot simply ignore it. Prove me wrong—please!—by referring to any law that refutes what I perceive is the normal, legal asylum process.