 |
|
The data from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse tool — or TRAC — says about 22,000 people on the docket in Charlotte were ordered removed from the United States in 2025. About 14,000 were ordered for removal the year before.
Voluntary departures increased, too. In 2024, just 167 people chose to leave the United States; last year, 799 people made that choice. Judges at the small immigration court, discreetly tucked into a building on Executive Center Drive, hear cases from both North Carolina and South Carolina. Even before a busy year for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Queen City and a controversial, weeklong U.S. Border Patrol operation, the court had well above 100,000 pending cases.
|
|
|
|
