Thursday, September 04, 2025

Trump Looks to Double Immigration Judges After Biden Left Backlog

Trump Looks to Double Immigration Judges After Biden Left Backlog

The Biden administration had carried out a two-step scheme to keep millions of migrants, most of whom do not have valid asylum claims, in the U.S. indefinitely.

In particular, Biden officials packed the government’s immigration court with a historic 3.5 million cases. For perspective, when former President Donald Trump took office in late January 2017, the immigration court backlog stood at fewer than 570,000 cases. When Trump left office in early 2021, the backlog had grown by about 500,000 cases to reach more than a million.

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