Immigrants waiting 10 years in US just to get a court date

FILE - Migrants wait along a border wall Aug. 23, 2022, after crossing from Mexico near Yuma, Ariz. U.S. immigration offices have become so overwhelmed with processing migrants for court that some some asylum-seekers who crossed the border at Mexico may be waiting a decade before they even get a date to see a judge. The backlog stems from a change made two months after President Joe Biden took office, when Border Patrol agents began now-defunct practice of quickly releasing immigrants on parole. They were given instructions to report to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at their final destination to be processed for court — work previously done by the Border Patrol. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)