The backlog in the nation’s immigration courts, where judges decide whether immigrants can remain in the United States or face deportation, now exceeds 3.5 million cases under President Joe Biden.
The data comes from Syracuse University’s Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) and details a significant increase in the number of immigration cases. Currently on hold The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is releasing tens of thousands of migrants into the interior of the United States every few weeks.
“As of the end of March 2024, 3,524,051 cases were pending in immigration courts,” said TRAC’s Austin Kocher. write.
As reported by Breitbart News, by the end of last year, the immigration court backlog had exceeded 3 million cases, TRAC announced. I got it.:
A new record was achieved in November. The backlog of immigration court cases has exceeded 3 million. Just 12 months ago, his backlog for November 2022 was 2 million. This means that the backlog of cases has increased by 1 million over the past 12 months. Immigration inspectors are overworked. [Emphasis added]
Immigration judges currently have an average of 4,500 pending cases each.All the people with pending immigration cases combined would be larger than the population of Chicago, the third largest city in the United States. In fact, the number of waiting immigrants in the court’s backlog is currently larger than the population found in many states. [Emphasis added]
This means that in just four months, nearly 500,000 deportation cases were added to the immigration court backlog, which reached more than 3.5 million by the end of March.
By comparison, when former President Donald Trump took office in late January 2017, immigration courts had a backlog of fewer than 570,000 cases. By the time Trump left office in early 2021, the backlog had increased by about 500,000 to more than 1 million.
Biden has nearly tripled the immigration court backlog since taking office.
According to recent information, analysis The number of immigrants who fail to appear in immigration court for deportation proceedings is “skyrocketing and is expected to exceed 170,000 in 2024, compared to last year,” said Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies. This will surpass the previous record of approximately 160,000 people.
“These aliens may have been ordered removed, but the Biden administration has no intention, much less a plan, to remove them,” Arthur wrote. “That’s why it’s likely that so many aliens never bothered to show up.”
federal government data Researchers have long shown that immigrants are more likely to be ordered deported from the United States than to be found to have a valid asylum claim to remain in the country.
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