President-elect Donald Trump's promise to launch the largest deportation in American history faces a major obstacle: a massive backlog in immigration court cases.
President-elect Donald Trump looks on during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 16, 2024 in New York City.n the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to launch the “largest deportation” in American history. But actually getting that done will require billions of dollars to hire thousands of new federal workers and pay for new spaces to hold those waiting to be deported.
But perhaps most daunting will be another obstacle: moving through a massive backlog in immigration court cases. Before a person in the U.S. can be deported, U.S. law requires they have a final order of removal issued by an immigration court. Those courts have been underfunded and understaffed for years, leading to wait times for a decision that stretch for years. Currently there are 3.6 million cases pending before immigration judges, the largest number of such cases in the history of the American immigration system. That is a 44% increase from the 2.5 million cases pending the year before. And the problem is only getting bigger, as more people continue to be put into deportation proceedings. Groups that support Trump’s effort to reduce immigration levels also want more immigration judges on the bench. Eric Ruark, the director of research for NumbersUSA, an organization that advocates for slashing legal immigration levels, says Congress needs to fund an expansion of the immigration courts to clear the backlog and speed up the issuance of removal orders. Congress has to “step up” and ensure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement “has the resources, that we have detention space, that we have immigration judges who can deal with these cases,” says Ruark. The immigration courts aren’t part of the judicial branch. They’re housed within the Department of Justice and run from an obscure corner of the bureaucracy called the Executive Office for Immigration Review in the Justice. That office oversees about 700 immigration judges who decide who gets deporte
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