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Despite hiring new judges during the first three years of the Biden administration and higher case closures per judge, the immigration court system has not yet been able to keep up with the new cases coming in, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a database overseen by Syracuse University. There are currently about 700 immigration judges.
The immigration court backlog reached a record of 3 million pending cases in November 2023, an increase of 1 million from the previous year, according to a report from TRAC.
So far in fiscal 2024, the immigration court backlog in San Diego is 7,290 pending cases and 664 in Otay Mesa.
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