A graph showing the Obama administration’s enforcement of immigration law

If anyone thinks with Donald Trump that the administration has been lax in enforcing the laws, this page shows that enforcement is so high that there is a backlog of a half million cases at immigration courts.

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The number of judges continue to prove insufficient to handle the growing backlog in the Immigration Courts. The problems are particularly acute for handling even priority cases like those involving unaccompanied children and women with children according to the latest court data updated through the end of August 2016 and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.

The backlog of pending cases involving unaccompanied children reached 73,649 at the August 2016, while the backlog of cases involving women with children is even larger and rose to 83,949 last month. Together they now account for nearly one third (31%) of the court’s overall backlog of a record 512,190 cases.

Pew Research Center reported in August, 2016, that The Obama administration deported 414,481 unauthorized immigrants in fiscal year 2014, a drop of about 20,000 (or 5%) from the prior year, newly released Department of Homeland Security data show. A total 2.4 million were deported under the administration from fiscal 2009 to 2014, including a record 435,000 in 2013, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the data. 2014 is the latest year for summary statistics, apparently.

The Bush Administration averaged somewhat over 200,000 deportations per year.

 

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