Immigration Courts Add 1 Million Cases To Backlog As Border Crisis Worsens

The immigration court backlog increased by a whopping one million cases in a single year as the surge at the southern border continues, according to a new report from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
The number of pending cases in U.S. immigration courts reached three million in November, marking a new record, TRAC, which analyzes data provided by the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), reported Monday. The backlog is expected to only worsen with the continued record flow of illegal immigration at the southern border.
Border Patrol recorded 12,000 encounters of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in a single day Monday, Fox News reported. Encounters of illegal migrants at the southern border topped 2 million in fiscal year 2023 and 2.2 million in fiscal year 2022, marking the highest year on record, according to federal data.