As the United States awaits a final decision on the fate of Title 42, the backlog of asylum claims by illegal aliens attempting to enter the country has surpassed 1.5 million.
The New York Post reports that the exact total of 1,565,966 is split evenly between two categories of asylum seekers: Those currently awaiting hearings before judges in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Immigration Courts system (767,882), and those who are awaiting hearings in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) court system (778,084), which is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
These numbers were produced through an analysis by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which claims that the leading cause of the surge in asylum-seekers is political instability in their home countries, particularly Mexico, Haiti, and Venezuela, among other countries in Latin America.
Overall, the total number of asylum applications in the U.S. has increased […]
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