Record Backlog in Immigration Courts

26 Aug Record Backlog in Immigration Courts

The lawsuit against the Arizona immigration law aside, Obama has devoted nearly all his efforts on immigration to ramped up enforcement, and his administration is on track to deport a record number of illegal immigrants. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency expects the number of deportations to increase by 10 percent above Bush’s 2008 total — and 25 percent above the 2007 total. But this number would be far higher were it not for the record number of immigrants who remain in legal purgatory, as there’s an unprecedented backlog of deportation and asylum cases that have yet to be heard.