WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is leaning more and more on the U.S. military in his crackdown on undocumented immigrants — from deploying the National Guard to American cities to temporarily assigning military lawyers as immigration judges to chip away at the court backlog of more than 3.4 million cases nationwide. There is a backlog of more than 416,000 immigration cases in Texas alone. But legal experts are wary of giving military lawyers these new duties.

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As immigration courts across the country face a backlog of more than 3. 4 million cases, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved the use of as many as 600 military lawyers as immigration judges

Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, 100 immigration judges were fired or not replaced when they left vol

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