“President Biden’s early immigration overhaul has overlooked one growing problem: A massive court backlog.”

Austin Kocher,  research assistant professor with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) in the Newhouse School, was quoted by The Texas Tribune for the story “President Biden’s early immigration overhaul has overlooked one growing problem: A massive court backlog.” Kocher, who leads immigration research for TRAC, says that the backlog of immigration cases from the past few years prevents people from fully participating in society. “The immigration courts and the backlog are not a physical border wall, but it is a paper border wall,” Kocher says.