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National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ)

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Role	Name	Type	Last Updated
Organization Head/Leader (past or present)	Judge Denise Noonan Slavin	Person	Jan 8, 2007

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Mar 29, 2009	Immigration courts face huge backlog QUOTE: The nation's immigration courts are now so clogged that nearly 90,000 people accused of being in the United States illegally waited at least two years for a judge to decide whether they must leave	USA TODAY
Jan 08, 2007	Battling Deportation Often a Solitary Journey: Without Legal Assistance, Thousands Are Expelled Unfairly, Critics of System Say QUOTE: unlike in criminal courts, the government does not provide free lawyers for the poor....That leaves respondents to navigate byzantine immigration law, the judges to walk them through it and, critics say, the courts to operate sluggishly and deport thousands unfairly.	Washington Post