Two top Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee demanded answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday over how his department has been running the immigration courts, where a massive backlog of cases has fueled the Biden administration’s “catch-and-release” approach for processing of migrants at the nation’s southern border.
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Rep. Tom McClintock, the California Republican who chairs the panel’s immigration subcommittee, have been pursuing the data since January and say 13 separate inquiries have gone largely unanswered by the administration, even as the backlog gets worse.
The immigration courts are where illegal immigrants go to argue against deportation, often by making claims for asylum in the U.S. Migrants are arrested and issued a summons to appear later before the Executive Office of Immigration Review to look into their case. Mr. Jordan, Ohio Republican, says he’s been unable to get “basic data” about the agency’s operations, including how judges are ruling in more than half of the cases they close.
The committee also asked Mr. Garland to make Michael Tennyson, the EOIR’s statistics chief, available for a transcribed interview.Department officials have acknowledged the EOIR’s struggles and said their primary focus is reducing the backlog. Even as it pleads for new funding, the EOIR has been on a purge, ousting judges and senior leaders recruited in the Trump administration.
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