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Immigration Judges (IJs), whose enormous caseloads consist of one horrific story of human suffering after another, face significant risks of stress and burnout-conditions that make adjudicating cases more challenging. Among this population we recently quantified stress and burnout using objective survey measures that showed that LUs suffer from significant symptoms of secondary traumatic stress and more burnout than has been reported by groups like prison wardens or physicians in busy hospitals. In this study, we analyzed data from a free response item asking about the challenges of Js' work, which generated narrative responses from 59 judges. We then used qualitative data analytic methods to code themes in the narratives, which were then clustered into five metacodes:" workload/time demands,"" infrastructure problems,"" challenges to esteem,"" psychological/health issues" and" fraud." The narratives …