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Gothamist<\/em>
\nBy Joseph Gedeon<\/em>
\nJuly 7, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

During the past year, some remote hearings took place, but only for people who were in detention. Now, non-detained people can have their day in immigration court at Broadway, Varick or Federal Plaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife is inside and we\u2019re waiting for the good news,\u201d said Ismail Hossein, a Bangladeshi American who was standing outside Federal Plaza immigration court with his young daughter. \u201cWe applied for that last June, now it\u2019s July so it\u2019s been more than a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hossein\u2019s wait hasn\u2019t been that long, however, according to data compiled and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. TRAC found that, on average, people in New York state have been waiting 1,002 days for their cases to be called, which is above the national average of 938 days. This number has only continued to rise, with the average waiting time for an immigration case being 863 days, in 2020 and 696, in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those people who have to wait for years, and years to have their cases decided, it essentially means they\u2019re living their lives in limbo,\u201d Austin Kocher, an assistant professor at TRAC, told Gothamist\/WNYC. \u201cIt delays really basic things like being able to buy a house, getting involved in your kids\u2019 school, and it really forces people to make all kinds of really challenging decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

This has been further exacerbated by the backlog of pending immigration cases, a longstanding issue that has also taken a backseat to the pandemic. In 2021 alone there are over 1.3 million pending cases across the country, with nearly 150 thousand in New York – making it the state with the third largest number of pending immigration cases, behind only Texas and California. While cases first started to mount in 2009, Kocher points to the Trump administration as a catalyst causing the system to become increasingly overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really only under the Trump administration that that number has skyrocketed so much more,\u201d Kocher said, noting the rise from 500-thousand cases to 1.3 million in the last few years. \u201cBut now it\u2019s continued to grow and there doesn\u2019t really seem to be a clear solution other than substantial immigration reform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under current law, immigration courts fall under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, with judges hired by the sitting attorney general. So when Biden-appointee Merrick Garland announced in May that the courts would reopen on July 6th, the backlog landed on the desks of an estimated 500 immigration judges nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndividuals that have waited to have their day in court, if their cases are reset, may have to go to the end of our dockets,\u201d Judge Amiena Khan, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, told Gothamist\/WNYC. \u201cFor many judges in the New York courts, that could mean all the way out to December 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some advocacy groups have pointed to a recent memorandum from the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor to the immigration courts, which followed an executive order from President Joe Biden and aims to address the backlog. And while advocates believe it will help in some situations, they say it is not a long-term solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still decisions in place which impede immigration judges\u2019 ability to manage their own dockets,\u201d Evangeline Chan, director of the Immigration Law Project<\/a> at Safe Horizon, an NYC-based victims services organization, told us. \u201cWe remain concerned about the balancing of due process and the courts\u2019 need for expediency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chan highlighted one case of a client that has been adjourned by the court six times over the last four years. Judge Khan agrees that this is an issue to be addressed, not just in New York City, but on the national level as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe judges recognize the tasks that are before us,\u201d Judge Khan said. \u201cAnd as immigration judges, we will do as we have always done: rise to the occasion to work to better the process and the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joseph Gedeon reported this story for the Gothamist\/WNYC\u2019s Race & Justice Unit.<\/p>\n

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