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On the recordOctober 31, 2017
I would ask, again, that you reject publicly the idea that you would use simply the numbers of cases or the amount of time it takes to complete immigration work as a measure of the quality of a judge's work.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline urges rejection of metrics for evaluating immigration judges' performance.

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