September 2, 2017

Huge backlog in immigration cases

TRAC - The latest available case-by-case court records show that as of the end of July 2017, the Immigration Court's backlog continued to rise, reaching an all-time high of 617,527. For the first time, individuals with pending cases from El Salvador surpassed the numbers from Mexico in the court's pending workload. There were a total of 134,645 pending cases involving citizens of El Salvador, edging past the 134,467 cases involving individuals from Mexico. In third place, with 102,532 pending cases were citizens from Guatemala.

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