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The potential impact of increased immigration enforcement on immigration court backlogs.
The new “big, beautiful bill” funnels roughly in additional funds for immigration enforcement through September 2029—raising the headline taxpayer burden to about $116 million per day when spread even...
The shift toward broader use of expedited and other nonjudicial removals has curtailed procedural safeguards that traditionally attach to removal proceedings by removing routine access to hearings, co...
The best available reporting places the average length of detention in 2025 in the mid‑40s of days—roughly —while important subgroups and specific facilities experience much shorter or much longer sta...
Court backlogs, shifting asylum adjudication rules, and pandemic-era public-health practices together reshaped annual removal figures by delaying decisions, rechanneling claims between agencies, and t...
President Obama’s 2013 immigration proposal was framed as a four-part “commonsense” blueprint combining stronger enforcement, employer accountability, a pathway to earned citizenship for undocumented ...
Mass deportation costs balloon not because removals themselves are inherently expensive but because three administrative choke points—overloaded immigration courts, limited and costly detention capaci...
ICE removals shifted strongly from interior-origin cases toward border-origin cases between 2017 and 2024: removals that began with CBP border apprehensions grew to constitute roughly four‑fifths of I...