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Immigration cases currently have the biggest backlog in U.S. history, new data shows.
Immigration courts fall under the Department of Justice
There were 1.59 million pending cases as of the start of the New Year, the largest in U.S. history, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of Syracuse University, which tracks all immigration court cases.
“The U.S. Immigration Court system is currently staring up a mountain of pending cases,” TRAC reports.
The total pending cases is larger than the population of Philadelphia right now.
TRAC researcher Austin Kocher told Border Report there has been a “deluge of cases” since President Joe Biden took office.
The fourth-quarter growth in pending immigration cases increased by nearly 140,000 cases from October to December 2021, and “is the largest on record,” TRAC reports.
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