Today... FERTIG: Sam Factor is a new judge. This is despite the fact that the number of immigration judges has increased by 80 percent since 2010, as well as the fact that those immigration judges completed twice as many cases in FY 2018 than in FY 2010. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. If not, the percentage shows up in red. The president has tried to provide relief to understaffed immigration courts by undercutting migrants’ ability to lodge asylum claims. The Trump administration has attempted to provide immigration courts with more resources to deal with the wave of asylum applications at the U.S.-Mexico border. Available statistics on pending caseload broken down by immigration court for FY2017 (Table 1, Page 9) can be found here. Now new data show the backlog has grown to almost 900,000 cases. I talked outside New York City's busy immigration court with Petra Baron. Immigration court backlog Since the 2016 election, new cases to the immigration courts have grown, even as the Trump administration has taken steps to speed up the work of the courts. The Remain in Mexico program has recently been expanded, with two new soft-sided facilities built in Laredo and Brownsville, Texas, where judges from across the country are able to remotely adjudicate cases. By December, he was scheduling trials almost two years in advance. The American Bar Association says the nation's immigration courts are so overloaded they're "on the brink of collapse." WNYC's Beth Fertig reports. The Trump administration has ramped up hiring more judges, but they're still facing enormous pressure. The Department of Justice is reportedly changing the Executive Office of Immigration Review in order to address the large backlog of cases in the immigration court system, the Washington Times reports.. Now new data show the backlog has grown to almost 900,000 cases. The American Bar Association says the nation's immigration courts are so overloaded they're "on the brink of collapse." And new policies have made it harder for judges to grant asylum. Copyright © 2019 NPR. That number represents roughly 80,000 more completions that the fiscal year 2018. Governmental initiatives for speeding up the process in immigration court included the Strategic Caseload Reduction Plan (SCRP) which looked to hire more judges, claim more physical space for adjudicating cases and implement video teleconferencing. Under a new quota system that started last fall, judges now see dashboards on their computers showing in red, yellow and green whether they're completing enough cases. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Such a program is intended to weed out fraud — eliminating the incentive for migrants to lodge asylum claims and then disappear into the interior of the U.S. before their court date arrives. FERTIG: And he says the number of cases judges are completing is among the highest since the 1980s. Immigration Courts Close 250,000 Cases in 2019, But Backlog of Nearly 1 Million More Still Waits | U.S. The court’s active backlog at the end of August 2019 was 1,007,155, according to case-by-case court records the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an immigration research group by Syracuse University, flagged. FERTIG: The immigrant's lawyer at this hearing wanted to be sure the judge was referring to 2020. According to data obtained by WNYC, the number of adjournments made because judges ran out of time tripled last year. ASHLEY TABBADOR: We're absolutely seeing some of the lowest morale and anxiety that's completely unprecedented.

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