New York Times: “Migrants Encounter ‘Chaos and Confusion’ in New York Immigration Courts”

Hurubie Meko of the New York Times reports on the chaotic state of the U.S. immigration courts in New York where 180,000 cases are now pending. The piece is accompanied by powerful photographs of long lines outside the immigration court. Meko writes:

The scene at the courthouse, where migrants were trying to keep appointments for ICE check-ins, captured the chaos that lawyers and organizations that help immigrants have been warning about since thousands of new migrants began arriving in the city this year: An already strained immigration system is becoming even more swamped, a problem that is likely to get worse as immigrants face deadlines to apply for asylum next year.

The article also cites to research from TRAC that “found that one in six new cases — or about 63,0000 — were dismissed last year because Border Patrol agents failed to file paperwork with immigration courts, something that rarely happened a decade ago[.]”

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