Is the US immigration court system broken?
- Written by Lindsay M. Harris, Assistant Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia
In the U.S. today, a single immigration case takes an average of 677 days simply to get to the initial scheduling hearing.
There are more than half a million cases in the system, and just over 300 judges working on them. The Trump administration’s push to aggressively enforce immigration laws will make this backlog worse.
Since 2002, funding...