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The backlog of active immigration court cases has surpassed the 1 million mark and has nearly doubled since President Donald Trump took office, a new analysis shows.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data gathering and research organization housed at Syracuse University, concluded that 1,007,155 immigration court cases were active through the end of last month. The backlog swells to 1.3 million cases when including cases that the court says are pending but have not been added to the active caseload rolls.
The backlog includes all kinds of immigration cases, and its enormity means immigrants often have to wait months or years for any resolution to their cases. The average case takes about 580 days to complete, according to an analysis from The New York Times.
Most are civil immigration cases, while a small fraction are criminal or related to national security. The backlog started increasing noticeably in 2009 and has jumped drastically since the end of fiscal 2016, when the figure stood at 516,000 cases.
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