'The case loads are just overwhelming for judges,' said Susan Long, the co-director of the TRAC Research Center.
The Trump administration has set a new record for the number of immigrants ordered to be removed from the U.S., with nearly 385,000 deportation proceedings filed in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2019, blowing well past the number of cases the U.S. saw filed last fiscal year., according to data from the Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse , which obtains its data from the Department of Homeland Security through Freedom of Information Act requests.
While, at the time, that number was still high enough to break records, representing the highest figure since TRAC began tracking deportation orders in 1992, the true number of deportation proceedings filed in fiscal year 2018 has only continued to grow. "There are delays in getting things in because these are new filings and so what happens is each month when you get them... you find that there are not just new ones that came in covering the current fiscal year, 2019, but some laggards that have come in from prior periods," Long said."You know, the government releases these preliminary estimates and they change [them] when more data comes in.
A father and daughter arrive on an ICE deportation flight from Brownsville, Texas on August 29, 2019 to Guatemala City. Under a new policy, ICE has expedited removal procedures for many Guatemalan families and adults arriving to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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