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The immigration court backlog in New York state has reached a historic high, according to data recently released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
In fiscal year 2021, which ended on September 30, 2021, New York immigration courts had 161,562 pending cases – a 22,000 case increase from the previous fiscal year. The vast majority of those pending cases were in New York City. In the first quarter of the 2022 fiscal year, from October through the end of December, the New York immigration court backlog jumped to 167,614 pending cases, according to TRAC.
New York’s numbers mirror a national trend, according to TRAC’s analysis. At the end of December, there were nearly 1.6 million pending cases in immigration courts across the country, which is the largest in history, a TRAC report released Tuesday said.
The number of national pending immigration court cases is nearly the size of the population of Philadelphia, the TRAC analysis found.
Since the beginning of the Biden administration, “the growth of the backlog has been accelerating at a breakneck pace,” the report says. Nationally, the quarterly growth in the number of pending Immigration court cases between October and December 2021 “is the largest on record,” according to TRAC.
In this three month period from October to December 2021, the backlog grew by nearly 140,000 cases — which is significantly higher than even the greatest growth of pending cases during the Trump Administration.
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