Backlog of US asylum claims tops 1.5 million, most on record: analysis
More than 1.5 million people in the US are waiting for their asylum claims to be heard, as the Supreme Court weighs the merits of the Trump-era Title 42 health policy — and could order it ended as soon as Tuesday.
The number of asylum seekers — 1,565,966 — are split between the 767,882 waiting for hearings before judges in the Department of Justice’s Immigration Courts and the 778,084 waiting for hearings before the US Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Homeland Security Department, the analysis says.
Long lines of migrants wait at the border near El Paso to be transported to US Customs and Border Protection officers.Claims in the Immigration Courts have jumped seven-fold in the past 10 years, from 100,000 asylum applications in fiscal year 2012 to more than 750,000 cases as of Sept. 30 of this year.
In the 12 months ending Sept. 30, a record-shattering 2.4 million people crossed the southern border of the US illegally. About 40% of those were expelled into Mexico under Title 42.
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