New reports on immigration court backlog and the time necessary to prepare an asylum case

ImmigrationProf readers might find these two reports of interest:

New report examines 2.2 million-case immigration court backlog

The Center for Migration Studies’ new report compares the paltry funding of immigration courts with the larger funding of enforcement agencies ICE and CBP.   ImmigrationProf blogger Austin Kocher analyzes insights from the report on Substack.

AILA report discusses how long an asylum case takes and how to do better

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) surveyed immigration attorneys and offers suggestions for speeding the asylum process. — Read their recommendations  As described by AILA, it “released a first-of-its-kind report on asylum timelines, High-Stakes Asylum: How Long an Asylum Case Takes and How We Can Do Better. The report is based on a survey of over 300 asylum attorneys about how much time it takes to prepare an asylum application, and what complications add significant time. High-Stakes Asylum also includes recommendations on how to inject efficiency into the existing asylum process and ensure the integrity of a system that has life and death consequences.”

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