{"id":3219,"date":"2023-01-03T06:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:28:13","slug":"bidens-border-crisis-our-immigration-courts-have-a-2023441-case-backlog-and-its-more-than-we-can-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Biden&#8217;s border crisis: Our immigration courts have a 2,023,441 case backlog and it&#8217;s more than we can handle<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Border Patrol had\u00a0more than\u202f2.2 million encounters\u00a0with illegal crossers between ports of entry on the Southwest border in fiscal 2022.<br \/>\nA recent\u202freport\u202ffrom the DHS\u202fInspector General indicates that\u202fmost of the illegal crossers\u00a0are not put in detention facilities or expelled under Title 42, but rather are processed for outcomes allowing them to be released into the United States to wait for immigration hearings. This has overwhelmed the immigration courts.<br \/>\nThe immigration court backlog was 1,262,765 cases at the end of fiscal 2020, which was the last full fiscal year of the previous administration. Under the current administration, it has risen to 2,023,441 cases as of the end of November 2022.<br \/>\nICE DEPORTATIONS REMAINED WELL BELOW TRUMP-ERA LEVELS IN FY 2022, AMID HISTORIC BORDER CRISIS<br \/>\nAlmost 800,000 of them have submitted\u00a0asylum applications and are waiting for an asylum hearing. The average wait from when an application is filed to when an applicant\u2019s case will be heard is 1,572 days, or 4.3 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/bidens-border-crisis-immigration-courts-have-2023441-case-backlog-more-handle\">Foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Border Patrol had\u00a0more than\u202f2.2 million encounters\u00a0with illegal crossers between ports of entry on the Southwest border in fiscal 2022. A recent\u202freport\u202ffrom the DHS\u202fInspector General indicates that\u202fmost of the illegal crossers\u00a0are not put in detention facilities or expelled under Title 42, but rather are processed for outcomes allowing them to be released into the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3360,1169,1327,3359,3361,3356,3358,3357],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-asylum-hearings","tag-biden","tag-border","tag-border-crisis","tag-border-patrol","tag-deportations","tag-illegal-crossing","tag-immigration-courts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7568,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/7568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}