“The number of judges continue to prove insufficient to handle the growing backlog in the Immigration Courts. The problems are particularly acute for handling even priority cases like those involving unaccompanied children and women with children according to the latest court data updated through the end of August 2016 and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. The backlog of pending cases involving unaccompanied children reached 73,649 at the August 2016, while the backlog of cases involving women with children is even larger and rose to 83,949 last month. Together they now account for nearly one third (31%) of the court’s overall backlog of a record 512,190 cases. For more details, including the top ten states with the largest overall Immigration Court backlog, see this month’s snapshot report at: http://trac.syr.edu/imm/snap_backlog/  – For cumulative details through August 2016 of priority cases since July 2014 involving women with children see: http://trac.syr.edu/imm/mwc/“