With immigration court case backlog swelling to over 3 million, will Congress act?

As previously discussed on the ImmigrationProf blog, the nation’s immigration-court backlog grew by more than a million cases in 2023. The backlog surpassed 3 million cases in November, rising from 1.9 million cases in September 2022, according to Syracuse University’s Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). USA Today reported on the  growing backlog:  “There are now more immigrants in the U.S. with a pending immigration case than people living in Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city . . .  Some are not due to appear in court for years, while judges grapple with caseloads of more than 4,000 each.”

This is just one more piece of the immigration puzzle that hopefully will push Congress to take action on immigration, which to this point it has failed to do.

KJ