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Harlingen, Texas (Border Report) — The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees the nation’s federal immigration courts, reports that it completed over 275,000 immigration cases in 2019 — the second-highest number in the agency’s history.
This is an increase of 80,000 cases, or 41%, from the 195,000 cases completed in 2018, according to a news release.
Agency officials attribute the increase in case completions as a direct reflection of new regulations set in 2018 to improve productivity by giving immigration judges certain case completion goals.
“Our immigration courts are doing everything in their power to efficiently adjudicate immigration cases while respecting due process rights, but efficient adjudication alone cannot resolve the crisis at the border,” EOIR Director James McHenry said.
Nevertheless, as of August 2019, there was a backlog of over 1 million U.S. immigration cases nationwide, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of Syracuse University, which tracks national immigration court trends.
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