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TRAC researcher Austin Kocher welcomed the news on Thursday, telling Border Report this could help streamline asylum cases and better suit migrants.
“The Biden administration’s forthcoming rule on asylum claims to take the asylum process out of an adversarial court setting would give it to asylum officers who specialize in evaluating asylum claims. Not only could this provide some relief to immigration judges who face enormous court backlogs, but it would also adhere more closely to the letter and spirit of the Refugee Convention,” Kocher said.
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Currently there is a backlog of over 1.7 million immigration cases that are waiting to be decided by U.S. immigration judges, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonprofit from Syracuse University, which tracks immigration cases.
(Graphic by TRAC)
So far in Fiscal Year 2022, which began Oct. 1, 344,604 new immigration cases have been added to the docket. However during that period, only 108,610 immigration cases were completed, TRAC reports in its latest data analysis, which includes cases through February.
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