Backlog of asylum files quandary | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Arkansas' Best News Source
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.
Source: arkansasonline.com