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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University keeps tabs on the country’s immigration courts — where immigrants go to determine whether they should get legal status, or be deported. As of July 2014, they found, nearly 400,000 immigrants are waiting for their cases to be resolved — a record high, and an increase of over 20 percent in a little under two years.
The average immigrant with a pending case, according to TRAC’s data, has been waiting for 567 days — a little over a year and a half. Immigration courts around the country have been facing a serious backlog for years: more money is poured into federal immigration enforcement, which means more immigrants are coming into the court system, but the courts themselves aren’t getting the same increases in funding to hire more judges and staff.
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