DOJ agency that runs the immigration courts; about 3.5M-case backlog; lost nearly a quarter of its judges after the 2025 firings
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Resources: Personnel: The FY 2027 budget request for EOIR totals $899.0 million, which is a 12.4 percent increase over the FY 2026 Enacted. EOIR's direct authorized positions for FY 2027 total 2,700 positions, which are 500 more than the FY 2026 Enacted.
9 percent of represented respondents received in absentia orders, compared to 75 percent of unrepresented respondents
a significant and growing backlog of 1.8 million pending cases at the start of fiscal year 2023
From fiscal years 2016 through 2023, about 34 percent of non-detained respondent cases resulted in an in absentia removal order
it took an average of 742 days to hire new immigration judges from fiscal years 2011 through August 2016
down from 726 permanent judges on Feb. 4, 2025 to 520 judges by late February 2026