The Pentagon is sending up to 600 military lawyers into immigration courts — a step Washington explains as necessary to ease the record backlog of more than 3.5 million cases.

For comparison, the Executive Office for Immigration Review currently employs about 700 immigration judges. Even after record hiring of judges in 2024, the number did not exceed 800. In practice, this decision doubles the workforce, but it does so by relying on people without real experience in immigration law.

The Justice Department has already lowered qualification requirements, allowing lawyers with........

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