Counties with the Highest Growth in Immigration Court Backlog
A TRAC Immigration study looks at the growth of immigration court backlog.
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.
In terms of sheer numbers in their pending caseload, Los Angeles County in California topped the list with the largest number of residents with pending cases. Its growth rate was only slightly higher—12 percent—than the national growth in the court’s backlog of 11 percent over this seven-month period.
December 31, 2017
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| Rank | State | County | Pending Cases | Change* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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1 |
CA | Los Angeles County | 44,634 | 12% |
| 2 | TX | Harris County | 39,193 | 3% |
| 3 | NY | Queens County | 27,659 | 8% |
| 4 | NY | Kings County | 15,922 | 6% |
| 5 | NY | Suffolk County | 13,127 | 6% |
| 6 | FL | Miami-Dade County | 11,702 | 3% |
| 7 | VA | Fairfax County | 11,027 | 11% |
| 8 | MD | Prince George’s County | 10,624 | 25% |
| 9 | NY | Nassau County | 10,051 | 6% |
| 10 | IL | Cook County | 8,954 | 2% |