2023-07-24 23:15:00
MIAMI – As of June, a total of 2,401,961 cases are stuck in the courts of immigration in the United States, according to the latest data released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data collection, research, and distribution organization at Syracuse University.
Of the 2,401,961 cases; 919, 433 correspond to requests for asylum politician awaiting resolution.
The immigration courts have recorded the receipt of 925,000 new cases so far in fiscal year 2023, through June 2023, indicating that, by the end of the year, the number of new cases might exceed 1 million.
Statistics reveal that reception in immigration courts has doubled compared to the same period (October to June) in 2022, which registered 480,879.
In total, the figure rose to 2,401,961 cases that must be heard by some 600 migration judges throughout the country.
The backlog of cases in the country’s immigration courts as of April, before the government ended Title 42, was 2,246,831. In just two months, more than 155,000 new cases are registered in the immigration courts.
The waiting processes to regularize immigration status in the United States or abroad are increasingly longer and cumbersome due to the backlog in the Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) that accumulates 9 million without resolution.
The USCIS backlog is 9 million unresolved applications, including asylum, work permits and citizenship. The increase is mainly due to the high number of asylum requests that are presented at the border with Mexico.
That situation has led to the administration of President Joe Biden facing a wave of civil lawsuits related to immigration. So far this year, more than 6,800 lawsuits have been filed due to the delays, says Immigration lawyer María Herrera Mellado.
Florida, the state with the most cases
The state of Florida ranks first with the most backlog cases in immigration courts with 376,240. Most correspond to the city of Miami with 221,004, almost two thirds of the stuck cases.
The nationalities with the highest number of asylum cases in Miami are: Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Chile.
The sites with the most asylum applications
The five destinations with the highest number of asylum applications are: Miami-Dade County, Florida; Harris County, Texas; New York City; Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California.
The majority of migrants who arrive at the border seek political asylum. The migratory flow has not stopped, although the Biden government assures that irregular migration has decreased, but the records of the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicate the opposite.
In June, CBP reported 211,575 entries. During the nine months of the current fiscal period, CBP records a total of 2,310,987 encounters on the southern border.
The migration programs promoted by the Biden administration through the “humanitarian parole”, the “family reunification parole”, and the request for an interview to request asylum through the CBP One App, have not managed to reduce irregular migration.
According to Republicans, Biden’s measures stimulate migration. CBP One serves 1,450 migrants daily, which represents interviewing more than 500,000 asylum seekers in a year.
More than 130,000 people have benefited through the humanitarian parole.
States most affected
After Florida, which ranks first with cases without resolution in immigration courts, the second state with the most cases is Texas, with 331,438. California follows with 273,285, and New York with 234,984.
The rest of the states present figures that oscillate between 141,000 and 13,000 cases. Michigan records the fewest with 13,396 court filings.
The current situation makes processing times slower and slower. There are places where migrants who have applied for asylum must wait up to 10 years for a resolution.
deportations
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that it carries out dozens of deportation flights every week.
During the first half of fiscal year 2023, DHS effected 225,483 deportations and returns, an increase from the figure of 170,896 during the same period of fiscal year 2022.
The Biden administration has allowed millions of people in illegally. More than 6 million immigrant encounters have been reported by the border patrol since the administration came to the White House in January 2021. But thousands are being deported, expenses that the taxpayer covers with the payment of their taxes.
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