The federal courts are dealing with a barrage of immigration-related lawsuits, with more filed over the past year than any period in history.
The influx of tens of thousands of immigration cases just since last fall threatens to derail President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown and clog the courts.
Between March 2021 and Trump’s first few months back in office last year, the average number of cases filed in federal court fluctuated from 500 to 1,000 cases. Last September, immigration attorneys began increasingly filing suits as the number of illegal immigrants being arrested by federal immigration authorities surged to record highs.
More than 41,000 lawsuits were filed in the 12 months leading up to March 2026, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at New York’s Syracuse University, a nonpartisan data research center that analyzes federal immigration statistical information.
In March alone, 9,911 new lawsuits were filed in federal court and showed no sign of reversing course. The dramatic surge is “striking” and “unusual,” TRAC noted.
The biggest reason for the uptick in immigration-related cases filed is that illegal immigrants in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are increasingly choosing to file habeas corpus petitions in federal court, which is outside immigration court.
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In March 2025, 105 of the total 945 immigration civil cases filed in federal court were habeas cases. In March this year, more than 9,000 of the 9,911 cases filed that month were habeas cases.
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