The number of unresolved cases pending in U.S. immigration courts more than doubled during the Trump administration, with would-be immigrants waiting an average of more than four years to have their cases heard.
Source: “The State of the Immigration Courts: Trump Leaves Biden 1.3 Million Case Backlog in Immigration Courts,” TRAC Immigration, Jan. 19, 2021, https://tinyurl.com/7sajk5dj
Data for the graphic are as follows:
Time Period | Number of Cases |
January 2017 | 542,411 |
December 2020 | 1,290,766 |