DOJ to impose quotas on immigration judges to speed up deportations

What's next: The quotas will go into effect in the next fiscal year, beginning October 1, according to WSJ.

By the numbers, per WSJ:

• Under the new standard judges must complete 700 cases per year, and have fewer than 15% of their decisions sent back by a higher court.
• Over the past five years, the average judge completed 678 cases in a year, Justice Department spokesman Devin O’Malley told WSJ. But he added that some judges cleared as many as 1,500 cases in one year.
• Other standards, which vary by each judge's workload, may include completing 85% of removal cases for detainees within three days of a hearing on the merits of the case. Another demands that 95% of all merits hearings be completed on the initial scheduled hearing date.

What they're saying:

• "This is the equivalent of completing three cases a day," O’Malley told Axios, suggesting that the new standards won't be t0o difficult to meet.

• “This is a recipe for disaster,” A. Ashley Tabaddor, an immigration judge in Los Angeles and president of the National Association of Immigration Judges told WSJ. “You are going to, at minimum, impact the perception of the integrity of the court.”