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There is a shortage of immigration lawyers as the number of asylum-seekers coming across the Southwest border continues to increase monthly, a new study finds.
The report, by Transactional Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of Syracuse University, says the number of immigrants not being represented by legal counsel in December was six times the amount it was in Fiscal Year 2019. In 2019, there were 363,000 migrants without legal counsel and 660,000 who had lawyers. But in December, the number without lawyers jumped to nearly 2.3 million with fewer than a million saying they have an immigration lawyer working on their case.
“More judges alone won’t be sufficient. There is another serious shortage: too few immigration attorneys,” the report says.
The TRAC report also notes that the number of asylum-seekers has continued to increase and the number of immigration cases in December has tripled from 2019.
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