Gosh...ya think this might be some of the problem??
[snip]more than HALF of all Federal prosecutions are of illegal aliens. In 2009, the U.S. Justice Department filed nearly 92,000 immigration-related criminal cases in the federal courts. The record-breaking trend accounted for more than half of all new federal prosecutions in the country, according to Justice Department data maintained at Syracuse University..”
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=federal+courts
And on top of that old figure is the fact that the obama administration wants more aliens reviewed by the courts before they are deported.
Good point, Aunt B. I haven’t seen you around here, lately.
If you read the article in the WSJ, one of the solutions that the judiciary is pushing for is to end electronic monitoring of pre-trial prisoners who are living in a half-way house.
We have these half-way houses in WA, as part of a Democrat effort to reduce incarceration rates, but this is the first time that I have heard about using them in pre-trial cases. I presume that they are drug cases.