criminals, hardened criminals. >> it remains unclear how the united states will be able to deport migrants in violation of this policy. if those transit nations, like mexico or guatemala, do not agree to take them in. it marks an effort r to reduce e number of people eligible to apply for asylum. the question remains how this would affect the existing backlog of asylum cases. over the past two years the number of new cases to u.s. immigration courts has been on the rise. this comes despite the administration's efforts to reduce immigration and speed up the process for these cases. as politico points out the backlog the court has has grown much faster in one year than the inflow of migrants. at rate of almost three times of new cases coming into the the courts. the number of pending cases has been on the rise for the past