Migrants still flowing into the US at record-setting pace as data shows 150K immigration cases in July alone

Migrants are still flowing into the US at a record-setting pace, with over 150,000 new cases filed with US immigration courts in July alone.

The record setting month saw three times more than the 45,000 number the Biden administration says is the maximum the administration would allow to enter the country per month via its CBP One app system.

The 150,578 Notices To Appear (NTAs) for deportation hearings filed according to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.

Thats equivalent to 4,800 people every day in July.

The filings represent appointments made by border officials when asylum seekers are first admitted to the US so they get to plead their cases.

They are often scheduled months and years in the future.

The figures show 85,782 cases were referred to the courts for Entry Without Inspection — which includes those who have illegally entered the country and then been arrested between land border entry points by Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Under the Title 8 processing which is in place at the border, migrants should be deported and banned from the US for five years if caught entering the country illegally.

However, if people prove to border officers they fear for their lives if they are returned to their homeland, they can be processed for asylum in the US.

The July stats show 64,306 cases referred on Other Immigration Charges, which would include all those legally admitted under the CBP One app scheme, which requires migrants to arrange a sponsor and make an appointment with border officers before arriving in the US.

Alongside them are a small number of other cases referred to immigration courts such as terrorism and National Security charges and aggravated felony or other criminal charges, but they make up less than 0.5% of the cases.

Figures compiled by TRAC show all seven months of 2023 in the top ten months with the most filings made with immigration courts since they started collating records in October 2000.

Each month indicates between 80,000 and 150,000 people added to the immigration court system.

Totaled they make over 820,000 admitted to the US in 2023, already beating 2022’s record setting figure of 797,800.

Numbers at the border surged in May as the end of the pandemic-era Title 42 measure neared, but the continued record numbers of filings indicates “tough” new measures promised by Biden aren’t deterring border crossers.

A press release from the Department of Homeland Security championed the administrations’ actions on June 6, saying: “[Since] The Biden-Harris Administration’s comprehensive plan to manage the border went into full effect on May 12, DHS has continued to experience a significant reduction in encounters at the Southwest Border. The Administration’s plan is working as intended.”

However, Border Patrol figures released later showed officers encountered 99,545 attempted illegal crossings along the Southwest border in June alone.

In addition to the hundreds and thousands of people registered coming into the country, then-CBP Chief Raul Ortiz estimated in May 530,000 migrant “gotaways” — illegal immigrants known to have entered the country but not been caught — had made it into the US since last October.

New York was revealed by The Post last week as the top destination in the country for migrants, receiving one in every ten who cross the southern border, who have overwhelmed public services and shelters and pushed the city to breaking point, according to leaders.

Mayor Eric Adams said the city expects to spend $12 billion on the migrant crisis by the end of 2024, and the city had at least 57,000 people still in shelters last week.

In February, the Biden administration said it would enforce tough new rules on migrants including them having to apply for asylum in other countries before reaching the US, only arriving by plane and having all their paperwork in order and not crossing into the country illegally.

However, numerous migrants interviewed by The Post shortly after crossing the border since have said those rules are not always enforced and people have found ways around them.