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January 27, 2026

Detroit father taken by ICE among tens of thousands facing deportation in Michigan
By Ryan Stanton


Michigan’s sole immigration court, which attorneys say has had challenges with judges and other staff leaving or being forced out amid President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, had a backlog of over 31,000 pending cases at the end of the 2025 fiscal year in September, data shows. That was up from about 4,200 in 2017, 9,400 in 2022 and nearly 30,000 in 2024 as the backlog has grown through both the previous Trump and Biden administrations, according to figures tracked by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, TRAC, at Syracuse University


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