US Immigration from Wales

https://thehill.com/homenews/4036416-watch-live-homeland-security-ig-testifies-on-staff-shortages-at-the-border/

The House Oversight subcommittee overseeing national security is hearing from Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari on Tuesday about the personnel needs of Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Cuffari s testimony, released in advance, discusses the recent, massive increase in interactions involving these agencies in the Southwest border area, from under 1 million in fiscal year 2019 to some 2.4 million in fiscal year 2022.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/28/an-immigrant-was-told-he-could-visit-home-he-was-arrested-at-the-airport?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I thought this was an interesting case.

It appears he applied for DACA on the basis of being abused by his presumably US born son.

Obtained AP

Travelled on that AP

Case was rejected at some point before he returned.

He was able to board his Plane but refused entry.

Not sure how the U Visa comes into play. that was not explained.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-migrant-sponsorship-program-cuba-haiti-nicaragua-venezuela-applications/

News indicated that as of the end of last month, the agency was receiving an average of nearly 12,000 applications per day from those seeking to sponsor Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, calling the number "overwhelming." The documents noted that less than three days' worth of applications were processed per month due to the 30,000 monthly cap.

More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in the U.S. under the sponsorship initiative. But the government was overseeing more than 580,000 pending cases for Haitians, more than 380,000 for Cubans, nearly 120,000 for Venezuelans and more than 20,000 for Nicaraguans at the end of April. Other cases were being reviewed or had been approved.

So what do these numbers mean, every 2 1/2 days they receive a months worth of applications. 15,000 are dealt with on the basis of when they were filed the other 15,000 of the monthly allocation are allocated on a random basis.

If they stopped it now it would take 4 years to clear current applicants..

https://trac.syr.edu/reports/717/

The federal government is facing a flurry of immigration-related civil lawsuits in court. In February 2023 alone, the federal civil courts recorded 943 immigration-related lawsuits, the highest immigration-related lawsuits for any single month on record. So far in FY 2023, from October to February, the courts recorded 4,175 total civil immigration filings. At this rate, the total number of filings for the year is estimated to exceed 10,000, a new record. This growth in immigration lawsuits has been driven primarily by what are known as mandamus lawsuits, or lawsuits that are typically filed when the government fails to take action on a variety of immigration-related applications.