TRAC Archives | Immigration Impact

A Shortage of Immigration Lawyers Is Another Barrier to Integration for Immigrants

by Adriel Orozco | Jan 31, 2024 | Due Process & the Courts, Immigration Courts | 0

Immigrants are now far more likely to face the complexities of the immigration court system alone,...

What Does Legal Representation Look Like in Immigration Courts Across the Country?

by American Immigration Council Staff | Aug 23, 2022 | Due Process & the Courts, Immigration Courts | 0

Written by Emily Creighton of the American Immigration Council and Jennifer Whitlock of the...

Immigration Agencies Get Hit with Record-High Lawsuits as Delays Worsen

by Leslie Dellon | Jul 20, 2022 | Benefits & Relief, Immigration 101 | 0

Lawsuits asking courts to order government employees to decide long-pending immigration filings...

The Federal Agency Running the Immigration Courts Keeps Deleting Asylum Records

by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Jun 9, 2020 | Due Process & the Courts, Immigration Courts | 0

With 1.2 million cases pending in immigration court, transparency into how the courts are run is...

A Federal Agency Is Deleting Court Records That Implicate Trump’s Immigration Policies

by Claudia Valenzuela | Nov 5, 2019 | Due Process & the Courts, Immigration Courts | 0

Understanding how the immigration agencies operate has never been more important. Equally...

Setting the Record Straight: Asylum Seekers Show Up for Court

by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Jan 30, 2019 | Asylum, Due Process & the Courts, Immigration Courts | 0

Immigration restrictionists have often repeated a bold and erroneous claim: that there is a serious problem of asylum seekers who come to the U.S. border and disappear once released from detention. But both fact-checkers and independent studies show this is not true. In reality, the vast majority of asylum seekers diligently attend all of their […]

As Shutdown Moves Into Fourth Week, Most Immigration Courts Remain Shuttered

by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Jan 14, 2019 | Due Process & the Courts, Immigration Courts | 0

With the government shutdown dragging into its fourth week—marking the longest shutdown in U.S. history—most of the nation’s immigration courts remain closed. The Trump administration decries immigration court backlogs and has implemented short cuts that limit and threaten due process to address the backlogs. Yet he has contributed to a shutdown that has led to […]