Biden's border crisis: Our immigration courts have a 2,023,441 case backlog and it's more than we can handle

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The cases in which asylum was granted represent just 7.4% of the completed cases.
56% : DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says in the announcement that, "Families who have recently arrived should not languish in a multi-year backlog; today's announcement is an important step for both justice and border security."
50% : Overall, only 2,894 out of 39,187 families who had hearings in fiscal 2022 were granted asylum.
33% : The Border Patrol had more than 2.2 million encounters with illegal crossers between ports of entry on the Southwest border in fiscal 2022.
31% : Court records for a two-year period during the Obama administration show that it was rare for an unrepresented family in Dedicated Docket proceedings to file the papers needed to seek asylum or other forms of relief from deportation.

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