My understanding is that there simply aren't enough judges for the ~15,000,000 cases that need adjudication. IIRC,they were even falling behind during Trump's first term, and the Biden/Mayorkas surge has left the system completely broken (I would not be surprised if that were the intent)
Fun fact: Chinese has separate "financial numerals" precisely to prevent one digit being changed to another, the way that could be easily done with regular numerals like turning 一 (1) into 三 (3) or 十 (10). A lot harder when they look like 壹, 叁, and 拾 instead.
Another fun fact: German registration plates use a font for which it is difficult to change one digit to another, for example by adding a bit of tape. The font is called FE-Schrift.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift
But they left S, X, and Z rotationally symmetric, so if you choose a non-palindrome vanity plate with only those characters, you can mount it upside-down and fool plate-readers.
The immigration system for the USA is broken not only beyond repair, but IMO broken beyond reasonable discussion because it's so complex and multi-faceted.
It doesn't need fixing, it needs replacing, and replaced by some mythical group that would put long-term good for the country over partisan gain
This is not surprising. It has been well known for a while that the amount of money given to the school systems has very little to do with students learning.
I think, in general, that the whole system is backwards and instead of giving money to school administrations to teach, we should be trying to figure out what are the obstacles to students learning.
A major factor supporting evolution over big up-front design is the drift in system requirements over time. Even on large military like projects, apparently there's "discovery"--and the more years that pass, the more requirements change.
This isn't my experience. Requirements tend to settle over time (unless they're stupidly written). Users tend to like things to stay the same, with perhaps some improvement to performance here and there.
But if anything, all development is the search for the search for the requirements. Some just value writing them down.
Iirc, there is a quote from Barry Boehm, author of Software Engineering Economics, who said something in the effect of "I wish you hadn't persuaded me that requirements didn't change much in big military contracts"
They do change, especially if projects take years.
Not only do people tend not to read, or read well, there is a lot on inherent ambiguity in english--so even if not written stupidly there may be surprises.
"Requirements" changed on just about every project I was on. I remember once asking the business owner if he could simplify some requirements cuz they were really complicated to develop well, and he replied Certainly--he was trying to put out something he thought would be easy for us to build.
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