The U.S. immigration court system — a branch of the Department of Justice — was facing a huge case backlog when Biden took office, and the backlog has almost doubled since then to nearly 2.5 million pending cases. Many migrants are seeking asylum, a humanitarian protection for people fleeing persecution. Some of the migrants who have crossed the border recently and asked for protection are being scheduled for court hearings more than five years away.
The inability of the system to settle cases quickly has become an incentive for additional illegal migration, because border crossers with weak asylum claims can file for protection and spend years living and working in the United States before having to worry about the risk of deportation...
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