Immigration Court Reform Archives - Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts

“Haste Makes Waste” in Courtrooms Too: Balancing Quality with Quantity in Response to the Immigration Backlog

Since 2017, the backlog of pending immigration cases in the United States has been growing exponentially. Today, there are over two million pending cases in the U.S. immigration court system. Over the past few months, the situation has significantly worsened, with a record-breaking number of new dep...

Getting and Posting Bond for Incarcerated Immigrants Increasingly Difficult

The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse published a new report last month analyzing the latest immigration court records including 19,000 bond hearings this year, showing how outcomes for incarcerated immigrants seeking release on bond varied widely between states. Overall, the national a...

Community Resource: “Know Your Rights” in Immigration Courts

Part of Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts’ mission to create equitable, accessible courts includes providing free educational information for legislators, researchers, journalists, and community members as they navigate the opaque court systems of Cook County and Illinois. Our Community Resou...

An Update from the Immigration Court Reform Advisory Committee Co-Chair

Proposing a New Model to Ensure Efficiency in the Courts, Creating a Manual for Practitioners, and More--Lisa Palumbo, Immigration Court Reform Advisory Committee Co-Chair The purpose is of the Immigration Court Reform Advisory Committee is to work together with stakeholders to create a more fair a...

April 13 Public Forum: Immigration Court Reform, Part of Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Casa Aztlan and Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice Co-Sponsor A Public Forum: Immigration Court Reform, Part of Comprehensive Immigration Reform The debate over comprehensive immigration reform includes a discussion of how to reform our immigration courts. These courts are at the heart of the immig...

1 2