Biden buries immigration courts in ‘avalanche’ with 1.6 million pending cases amid border crisis

Published January 18, 2022 12:00am ET



The number of immigration cases waiting to be decided in federal court has increased at a faster rate under the Biden administration than under any other president, according to a report published Tuesday by a nonpartisan research organization.

Nearly 1.6 million people have cases pending in the U.S. immigration court system, the most ever recorded in history, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, an affiliate of Syracuse University in New York.

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