NEW FROM TRAC: U.S IMMIGRATION COURT BACKLOG NEARS 670,000, GROWING 11% OVER LAST 6 MO. OF 2017! – Counties In All 50 States Are Affected With California, New York, New Jersey, & Texas Leading The Way – Maryland Counties Among Those Experiencing Fastest Backlog Growth!

“Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Greetings. The county in the country with the fastest growing number of residents with pending cases before the Immigration Court was Mecklenburg County (Charlotte) in North Carolina. Pending cases there shot up by 34 percent between May and December 2017. Coming in second with a growth rate of 30 percent over this same period was Loudoun County (Leesburg), Virginia.

Nationally, the Immigration Court backlog over the same period increased by 11 percent, reaching a new all-time high of 667,839 at the end of December. These pending cases were spread across 2,559 separate counties.

Only two counties — Pinal County (Florence), Arizona and El Paso County, Texas — out of the top 100, experienced a reduction in the number of residents with pending court cases.

California was the state with the largest number of counties that ranked in the top 100 by the current size of their pending Immigration Court backlog. That state included 19 out of the top 100 counties. New Jersey, New York, and Texas each had ten counties in the top 100. A total of 25 states had at least one county that ranked among the top 100 in the nation in the concentration of residents with pending court cases.

These results are based upon case-by-case court records that were obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University and are based on the reported address for each immigrant. If the individual was currently detained, the location was the address of the detention facility.

To see the full report, including rankings for the top 100 counties where the most immigrants with pending court cases reside, go to:

http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/497/

To view the number of residents as of the end of December 2017 with pending court cases for each county, as well as county subdivision, go to:

http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/addressrep/

In addition, many of TRAC’s free query tools – which track the court’s overall backlog, new DHS filings, court dispositions and much more – have now been updated through December 2017. For an index to the full list of TRAC’s immigration tools go to:

http://trac.syr.edu/imm/tools/

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David Burnham and Susan B. Long, co-directors
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
Syracuse University
Suite 360, Newhouse II
Syracuse, NY 13244-2100
315-443-3563

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While Attorney General Jeff “Gonzo Apocalypto” Sessions and the EOIR bureaucrats are fiddling around trying to eliminate administrative closing (thereby adding as many as 340,000 cases to the existing backlog) and imposing unachievable “goals and timetables,” “Rome is burning!”

PWS

01-23-18

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