Including nearly 50,000 new deportation cases filed in immigration court in just October 2021, the total pending cases in the Immigration Courts now reaches 1,486,495 according to TRAC’s updated Quick Facts tools. Immigration Judges completed 21,154 cases in October, less than half of the total new cases coming into the courts, which means the total backlog continues to grow each month.

For the rest of the updated data on the immigration courts, click here.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is actively undermining Congress by failing to release accurate information about the number of immigrants in detention on a regular basis. While minor data issues with ICE’s regular immigration detention data releases certainly occurred during the Trump administration, ICE’s spreadsheet of detention data has seen…

Based on new research that TRAC published earlier this week, we found that the number of asylum cases decided each month remains low and has not really budged since the start of the pandemic.

Immigration attorney Matthew Hoppick wrote on his blog just yesterday that the Kansas City court, where…

Although I can empathize with the desire by many scholars to view political activism by undocumented immigrants as radical (for it is, in some ways, inherently radical to simply exist in the United States without papers), I am opposed to the tendency to glamorize or sensationalize such activism as the…

Even though immigration policy tends to focus on the U.S.-Mexico border asylum, it may come as a surprise that one of the most difficult places to obtain asylum is at the Cleveland immigration court in Ohio, far from the Southern border.

Most people don’t think of immigration and Ohio in…

DHS Secretary Mayorkas issued a new policy memo that limits immigration enforcement activities near what the agency calls “protected areas.”

In releasing the new memo, Mayorkas said:

“We can accomplish our law enforcement mission without denying individuals access to needed medical care, children access to their schools, the displaced access…

According to data released by ICE on October 28, 2021, the number of immigrants enrolled in ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program continues to see significant growth during the Biden administration.

The ATD program also goes by the more specific name Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) or ATD-ISAP-III. …

Immigrants who are held in immigrant detention centers may be eligible for an immigration bond if they are not required to be detained. What we’ve found at TRAC is that immigration bond amounts have fallen slightly over the past six months from around $7,500 in March to $5,000 in September.

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