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The Syracuse University-affiliated Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) in December announced that the loss of roughly 50,000 pending asylum applications allowed the Biden administration's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) to "falsely report that its asylum backlog had been reduced this past year when in fact it had markedly grown."
The organization reported that its warnings to the EOIR about faulty methodology for tracking minors had been ignored and that the issues were severe enough to warrant TRAC dropping its own reports entirely.
"TRAC has concluded that these flaws ... are so serious that the resulting statistics based on these data are not an accurate or reliable indicator of the quantity or characteristics of juvenile cases currently being handled by the Immigration Court," the group wrote.
"Government agencies should be transparent and accountable to the American public — but this is difficult if they don’t collect reliable information on what they are actually doing," the TRAC statement went on.
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