Last updated March 19, 2022. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Backlog of Pending Cases in Immigration Courts
Tag: Immigration Courts
MPP as a Microcosm: What’s Wrong with Asylum at the Border and How to Fix It
Published by Refugees International on February 11, 2022.
Report from a visit to Remain in Mexico court hearings in El Paso in January 2022.
Asylum Grant Rates Climb Under Biden
Published by TRAC Immigration on November 10, 2021.
Presents data showing that asylum grant rates increased from 2020 to 2021, though the pandemic brought a sharp decrease in overall decisions.
Asylum or Other Relief Grant Rates in U.S. Immigration Courts FY 2020
Last updated November 22, 2020. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Dismantling and Reconstructing the U.S. Immigration System: A Catalog of Changes under the Trump Presidency
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on July 31, 2020.
Catalogues more than 400 administrative changes to the U.S. border security and immigration regime during the Trump administration, and what it might take to undo them.
Asylum Denied, Families Divided: Trump Administration’s Illegal Third-Country Transit Ban
Published by Human Rights First on July 15, 2020.
Details the human rights impact of the third-country transit ban that the Trump administration imposed in July 2019 and a federal court struck down on June 30, 2020.
Unless the United States Deploys These 5 Regional Migration Strategies, COVID-19 Could Portend Another Humanitarian Crisis On Our Border
Published by WOLA on June 30, 2020.
Migration is likely to increase again at the border. But through inexpensive, low-drama strategies, the U.S. government can manage it in an orderly, humane way.
The State of Asylum: Changes Made to the Asylum System During the Trump Administration
Published by the Niskanen Center on May 21, 2020.
An overview of the Trump administration’s systematic dismantling of the right to seek asylum, and recommendations for how to restore it.
AP visits immigration courts across US, finds nonstop chaos
Published by the Associated Press on January 19, 2020.
An investigation of the disorder that reigns in the Justice Department’s overwhelmed and untransparent immigration court system.