Immigration courts overwhelmed with cases

 Washington Examiner:

The southern border crisis has taken up much of the national focus on immigration over the past three years, but the back end of the crisis, the nation’s immigration courts, have similar problems.

As the number of illegal immigrants encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border hit all-time highs in December, government data revealed that the state of the courts was also in the worst position in its history.

Federally run immigration courts surpassed 3 million pending cases in November, according to data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan research center at Syracuse University in New York.

"If every person with a pending immigration case were gathered together, it would be larger than the population of Chicago, the third largest city in the United States," TRAC wrote in its latest report. "Indeed, the number of waiting immigrants in the Court’s backlog is now larger than the population found in many states."

The backlog has grown by a million cases over the past year, an indication of just how many illegal immigrants the Biden administration has directed U.S. border officials to release into the country.

Cases soared over the summer, increasing by nearly 400,000 between July and September — making up 40% of the year’s new cases in just a quarter of the year.

But things took an even greater turn for the worse in October and November with the addition of more than 280,000 new cases.

The courts will likely be further affected by what is happening at the border this month. More than 10,000 immigrants have been arrested illegally entering the country daily in recent weeks, with the large majority of people being released into the country despite the Biden administration’s threats to deport immigrants who do not pursue admission through lawful pathways.

Just as troubling is the number of cases that each of the fewer than 700 immigration judges nationwide have been assigned. As more immigrants are added to the court docket, each judge’s caseload has increased to 4,500 pending cases per judge.

Although the Biden administration has hired more judges, they have not been able to keep up with the workload. Judges closed out fewer than 1,000 cases in fiscal 2023, which ended in September.

The backlog has grown six times its rate from 516,031 cases at the conclusion of the Obama administration.
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"Large numbers of cases are not in themselves the problem," MPI continued. "The failing is the inability to address those cases expeditiously and ensure timely, quality decisions. Cases in which noncitizens seek asylum have been a growing proportion of [immigration judges] caseloads, now comprising 40 percent of the court system’s pending caseload, and these cases take considerably longer to resolve than others."

I suspect the large majority of asylum claims lack merit.  Most of these immigrants are not normal asylum seekers but looking for American jobs or welfare rather than someone escaping tyranny.  It is the Bidne open borders that are mainly responsible for the huge influx.  The Trump policy was much more effective at stopping the surge of illegals.  There is also the fact that millions of illegals are not even bothering to even ask for asylum.  They are the "gotaways."

See also:

"Mass Migration Blueprints" Reveal NGOs "Carefully Planned" US Migrant Invasion, Report Says

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 The new website Muckraker revealed a treasure trove of "mass migration blueprints," handed out by NGOs across South and Central America to illegals with details about their route to the US. 

"The collapse of the US southern border is the result of a carefully planned and deliberately executed industrial mass migration program," Muckraker said. 

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What's becoming increasingly evident is that a network of NGOs funded partly by the US taxpayer but by other countries and corporations are covertly facilitating the invasion of illegals at the US southern border, as well as distributing them across the US into progressive metro areas.

According to an August report by progressive left-leaning media watchdog organization Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, President Biden's Department of Homeland Security allocated $363 million to NGOs to assist illegal aliens once in the US.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott released a press release one year ago detailing how "NGOs may be engaged in unlawfully orchestrating other border crossings through activities on both sides of the border, including in sectors other than El Paso."

Once across the border, NGOs are also helping migrants with transportation across the US, such as providing seats on commercial airlines.
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And:

 Along Alaska-to-Maine border, migration hits record numbers. Take a look behind the data.

And:

 Biden aiding illegal immigrants instead of veterans is un-American

Democrats only care about illegal immigrants because it's an election year