Disturbing Statistics from EOIR on UACs
By Andrew R. Arthur on November 13, 2018
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the Department of Justice (DOJ) component with jurisdiction over the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), recently released statistics on immigration cases. While those statistics provide a historical analysis for appearance rates at immigration-court proceedings generally, they paint a particularly bleak picture as it relates to appearance (and non-appearance) rates for unaccompanied alien children (UACs).
The number of inadmissible UACs apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ebbed and flowed, but the numbers in recent years are far above historical averages. As DHS noted in an April 2018 press release, prior to 2011, over 90 percent of arriving aliens were single adult males, whereas today, 40 percent are families and children. Border Patrol statistics reveal that the number of UACs apprehended along the Southwest border has increased from 15,949 in FY 2011, to 24,403 in FY 2012, to 38,759 in FY 2013, before surging to 68,541 in FY 2014.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Disturbing-Statistics-EOIR-UACs
