Trump Admin Adds Largest Class of Immigration Judges Ever

The Trump administration’s massive expansion of the immigration judge corps is aimed squarely at accelerating deportation cases and unclogging an immigration court system that had been buried under years of backlog and delay

EOIR also said reducing the immigration court backlog remains one of its highest priorities. Since January 20, 2025, the agency says it has completed more than 1.08 million cases and reduced the pending caseload by more than 447,000 cases, bringing it from approximately 4 million to under 3.53 million.

When Trump took office, the pending immigration court caseload was approximately 4 million cases