Chicago immigration court slows pace amid more cases
Statistics show Chicago’s immigration court now has the second-longest average time to dispose of a case in the U.S. due to a spike in pending cases and the complexity of some of them.
Cases flood Chicago Immigration Court as system reckons with new landscape
New push to deport individuals in the areas illegally has thousands stuck in backlog. In a tiny basement courtroom of a federal building on Congress Parkway, Francisco Casas-Torres explained to a judge how he came to be in…