Immigration court backlog eases as Biden era wanes

Immigration court backlog eases as Biden era wanes

The Biden administration is deporting migrants at a rapid pace. Federal judges closed almost a million cases in fiscal year 2024, the highest number since 2015, when records began. The outgoing administration is warming up the engines of the great expulsion machinery that Donald Trump wants to set in motion when he returns to the White House on January 20. However, the huge backlog of cases could serve as a dam to the deportation plan that the president-elect intends to carry out. Some 3.5 million files are still pending review in the 71 federal courts in the country. These include 1.7 million cases in which asylum has been requested.

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