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In a study of roughly two decades of data through 2021, TRAC found that immigration judges granted asylum or other immigration relief in 50% of completed cases, said Sue Long, co-director of TRAC and associate professor at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management.
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Corrections and Clarifications: An earlier version of this report misstated asylum case data from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The organization says immigration judges granted asylum or other immigration relief in 50% of completed cases over 20 years.
The nation's immigration court backlog swelled by more than 1 million cases in 2023, according to new data, as the number of migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border surged.
The backlog surpassed 3 million cases in November, rising from 1.9 million cases in September 2022, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, which compiles and analyzes federal immigration data.
There are now more immigrants in the U.S. with a pending immigration case than people living in Chicago, the nation's third-largest city, TRAC concluded. Some are not due to appear in court for years as judges grapple with caseloads of more than 4,000 each.
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