U.S. Government Shutdown Worsens Immigration Court Backlog

Last November, TRAC:  Immigration reported that the immigration courts had a backlog of a million cases.  The long shutdown of the U.S. government has made matters worse.  Louise Radnofsky reports for the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) that “[t]he immigration-court backlog grew by at least 10% during the partial government shutdown, as a funding dispute centered on border security left the nation’s overloaded immigration system digging out of an even deeper hole than before the five-week standoff.”

KJ