| Subject: Growth in the Immigration Court Backlog Continues in FY 2019 |
| (18 Dec 2018)
The Immigration Court backlog continues to rise. As of November 30, 2018, the number of pending cases on the court's active docket grew to 809,041 cases.
This is almost a fifty percent increase compared to the 542,411 cases pending at the end of January 2017 when President Trump took office. This figure does not include the additional 330,211 previously completed cases that EOIR placed back on the "pending" rolls that have not yet been put onto the active docket.
The state of Maryland continues to lead the pack with the highest rate of increase in pending cases since the beginning of FY 2017 -- up by 107 percent. In absolute terms, California has the largest Immigration Court backlog - 146,826 cases waiting decision - up by 54 percent. These results are based upon proceeding-by-proceeding internal Immigration Court records obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University Just in the last two months, the Immigration Court active backlog has grown by over 40 thousand cases. Particularly high growth rates of 10 percent or higher were experienced at nine Immigration Courts. The two courts with the highest rate of growth in their backlog were two courts at ICE detention facilities. The Eloy Immigration Court in Arizona saw its backlog increase by 144 percent, while the Conroe Immigration Court (Houston SPC) in Texas had an increase of 62 percent. These increases occurred even though the court assigns the highest priority to hearing detained cases. For the full report go to: http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/542/ In addition, many of TRAC's free query tools - which track the court's active backlog, new DHS filings, court dispositions and much more - have now been updated through November 2018. For an index to the full list of TRAC's immigration tools go to: http://trac.syr.edu/imm/tools/ If you want to be sure to receive notifications whenever updated data become available, sign up at: http://tracfed.syr.edu/cgi-bin/tracuser.pl?pub=1&list=imm or follow us on Twitter @tracreports or like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/tracreports TRAC is self-supporting and depends on foundation grants, individual contributions and subscription fees for the funding needed to obtain, analyze and publish the data we collect on the activities of the U.S. federal government. To help support TRAC's ongoing efforts, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/cgi-bin/sponsor/sponsor.pl |
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