Immigration

1,819 illegal immigration cases per judge, backlog at all-time high 500,000

By Paul Bedard
Published July 25, 2016 2:49pm ET
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1,819 illegal immigration cases per judge, backlog at all-time high 500,000
Demonstrators protest against a Supreme Court decision on immigration outside the New York Supreme court, Friday, June 24, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) | Mary Altaffer

PHILADELPHIA — The backlog of pending cases in U.S. immigration courts has hit an all-time high of nearly 500,000, crushing the small corps of just 273 Justice immigration lawyers.

Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse just revealed that the backlog has hit 496,704 at the end of June 2016. That is up from 456,216 just nine months ago, and up from 408,037 two years ago.

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