MIAMI — Eight months after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States, a couple in their 20s sat in an immigration court in Miami with their three young children.
Fueled by record-breaking increases in migrants who seek asylum after being apprehended for crossing the border illegally, the court backlog has grown by more than 1 million over the past fiscal year and it s now triple what it was in 2019, according to government data compiled by Syracuse University s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.