Illegal immigrants are flooding across the U.S. border with Mexico in such numbers that federal immigration officials are being overwhelmed by the biggest-ever backlog of pending cases even though they’re being processed faster, according to new data obtained by a government watchdog group.
“Latest case-by-case court records through October 2022 reveal that Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 marked the largest number of individuals granted asylum in any year in the Immigration Court’s history. Grant rates averaged 46 percent, up from 36 percent in FY 2021,” according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
