The Justice Department on Wednesday released a two-pronged strategy to address the surge of illegal immigration on the nation’s southwestern border that aims to increase the capacity of American courts to adjudicate immigration cases while assisting Central American governments in ameliorating a growing humanitarian crisis.

Deputy Attorney General James Cole said the department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review will reallocate resources to prioritize cases involving migrants who have recently crossed the southwestern border and whom the Department of Homeland Security has placed into removal proceedings. “This refocusing of resources will allow EOIR to prioritize the adjudication of the cases of those individuals involved in the evolving situation on the southwest border.” EOIR Director Juan P. Osuna said.