TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Oct 20, 2023

Advocates for an independent immigration court testified before a U.S. Senate Judiciary panel on Wednesday, saying such an addition would help ease the backlog of pending cases. Immigration courts are currently an arm of the Justice Department, as governed by each presidential administration's immigration policy. The Tennessee Lookout reports that as of August, there is a backlog of more than 2.6 million pending immigration cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, known as TRAC, a research center at Syracuse University. TRAC also found a 19% increase for the month of August in new immigration court cases, to 180,000 just for that month.