More than 500k immigrants missed their court hearings on Biden's watch: analysis
'It will now take years to get that system back on track,' an immigration policy expert concludes
By Michael Lee Fox News
Published April 21, 2025 11:10am EDT
More than half a million immigrants failed to show up for their immigration court hearings under former President Joe Biden.
Between Fiscal Year 2022, the first full year of the Biden administration, and the end of December 2024, immigration judges issued more than 507,000 in absentia removal orders, or removal orders for those who failed to show up for their immigration hearings, according to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
The number represented a 45% increase in such cases compared to the previous seven years under former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump’s first term, the analysis found, despite that period being more than double the timeframe.
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