Increase in Civil Immigration Litigation
The latest available data from the federal courts show that during April 2016 the government reported 235 new civil immigration lawsuits had been filed. These suits have been rising fairly steadily during the past year; the April data represent a 37.7 percent increase from one year ago. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, this number is up 5.4 percent over the previous month when the number of civil filings of this type totaled 223. Overall, the data show that civil immigration filings are up approximately 30 percent from levels reported in April 2011, five years ago.
The Southern District of New York was ranked fourth a year ago. The Eastern District of New York ranked second. It was ranked fifth a year ago. The Middle District of Georgia now ranks third. It was ranked seventh a year ago.
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