Seeking to ease a backlog of immigration cases and speed up decisions on deportations, federal officials have added judges to U.S. immigration courts in San Antonio and around the country and ...

Lawyers representing immigrants being swept up by the Department of Homeland Security are raising the alarm that federal authorities are deploying new tactics to fast-track deportations. According to ...

A federal surge has more than doubled caseloads within some immigration courts nationwide. Lawyers say the tactic is causing errors and confusion. By Jazmine Ulloa and Hamed Aleaziz Jazmine Ulloa, who ...

The US immigration court backlog reached nearly 1.6 million cases last year, with cases climbing more rapidly between October and December, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records ...