New York City’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement office is “fully booked through October 2032” for appointments to process migrants.
the Southwest border in the 23-month period from late March 2021 through Feb. 13, according to a Feb. 18 document on ICE letterhead.
The document reviewed by The Post lists the “Top 10 Parole/NTR Appointment Backlog Locations” and said that as of Feb. 13, there were 39,216 non-citizens with appointments at ICE’s New York City office — making it the most clogged jurisdiction in the country. Victor Rodriguez, 23, who arrived in the US from Venezuela in late 2022, told The Post he has an appointment date in 2025.
Jhony Amagua, 28, of Ecuador arrived in late January and told The Post he was issued an appointment date for 2031.Amagua, who is living with his wife and two young children at the same Midtown hotel as Rodriguez, said he’s “completely lost and has no idea what to do” and that when he asked for an earlier date was told, “No, your appointment date is the one on the original paper.”
“The problem is significantly worse with people trying to get in courts where everything is delayed so that they can get work authorization and basically hang out and wait for the next amnesty,” said O’Brien, who was an immigration judge from 2020 through 2022 after working at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
“That means that there are tens of thousands of people with NTRs who were released on ‘Alternatives to Detention’ who have not been scheduled to show up at an ICE office for an NTA, and 700,000-plus of aliens who were paroled with ATD who are in the same situation,” said Arthur, who is now a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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