Immigration Court Backlog Has Now Reached 3 Million Pending Cases

Published on December 19, 2023

Another grim milestone in the ongoing United States border crisis has been reached after the backlog of pending cases in immigration courts passed three million this November. According to a new report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonprofit data research center at Syracuse University, this figure represents a “new record,” with the backlog never reaching such highs before. Even with a record number of judges working on the cases and a faster completion rate, the flood of cases is proving too much to keep up with. “Previous administrations, all the way back through at least the George W. Bush administration, have failed when they tried to tackle the seemingly intractable problem of the Immigration Court backlog,” TRAC said....