Bar Association: Immigration court system ‘on the brink of collapse’
John SextonPosted at 7:21 pm on March 20, 2019
The American Bar Association has released a report on the state of the country’s immigration courts. The report concludes the current system is “facing an existential crisis†because of the unprecedented backlog of cases (around 800,000) and says the entire system is “on the brink of collapse.†From the report’s executive summary:
The state of the U.S. immigration court system has worsened considerably since our 2010 Report… Crucially, the number of cases pending before the immigration courts (which were about 262,000 cases at the time of the 2010 Report) has increased to unprecedented levels. As of December 2018 there were more than 760,000 presently pending cases and an additional 330,000 cases that could be returned to active dockets in short order as a result of recent Attorney General decisions. Ballooning dockets have resulted in increasingly long wait times for cases to be heard…
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