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99% of the docket is Removal; the CFR border lane collapsed −96%.
2025 was the year of the pivot: less dismissing, more removing.
Cubans live the opposite story: ~7× less removal in 2025.
2026* brings an early signal of change — we track it month by month.
EOIR is the Department of Justice's immigration court system: a judge there decideds deportation (removal) cases. It is different from USCIS, the agency that processes applications like the I-485 — and that difference matters at the end of this story.
And 2026, with only ~7 months, is already at 3,803,635.
«The growth = more judges × more load per judge. It is not an artifact.»
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75,848 → 13,970 → 3,090. Consistent with the shift in border policy — the data does not claim causality.
Merits hearings — where it gets decided — are growing: more cases are reaching resolution.
Master: a short calendar hearing — the judge organizes your case and sets next steps, in a group. Individual: your merits hearing, where your full case is presented and the judge decideds.
Video −66%; telephonic also falls (24,631 → 4,235).
Methodological note: the remaining medium codes mix in-person/hybrid modalities; the exact breakdown awaits EOIR's official code key.
In 2022–2024 dismissals through prosecutorial discretion dominated (up to 218K/year). In 2025 the focus changed: less dismissing, more removing.
Terminated: the judge closes the deportation case with no order against you.
Dismissed: the government withdraws the case — it also ends closed.
Removed: the judge issues a deportation order.
Relief: the judge grants you a protection or benefit (asylum, adjustment…).
Voluntary departure: you leave on your own within a deadline, with no removal order.
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The highest level since 2007 — but in the hundreds, not thousands. Historically: ~20,135 adjustments, concentrated in 1998–2007.
The dominant positive outcome for Cubans is that their deportation case gets closed — the green card is won later, at USCIS, with the I-485, outside the court record.
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2026 is a partial year (~7 months) and this is an early signal, not a definitive conclusion. The protective gap may be narrowing — we are monitoring it month by month.
Overcount ~4–5%, stable across years (4.8% in 2021 vs 4.4% in 2025) — there is no inflation.
Hearings per case flat (1.62 → 1.65) — these are more real cases, not reschedules.
9–19 hearings/judge/day — perfectly human for masters of 30–50 cases per morning.
The hearing record is real and validated — 4.18M in 2025, three integrity tests.
99% is Removal and the CFR border lane collapsed −96%.
2025 was the year of the pivot toward removal: 528,833 orders, 73% of completed non-Cuban cases.
Cubans are the big exception (~7×) — but the court closes cases, it doesn't grant green cards.
2026 brings a signal of change (25.4%* Cuban removal rate) that we monitor month by month.