Era of Amnesty Is Over: President Trump Restores Rule of Law to Immigration Courts – The White House
Since President Donald J. Trump returned to office, the United States has launched the most aggressive and successful immigration enforcement overhaul in modern history — and that extends to immigration courts. After four years of Biden-era chaos turned immigration courts into de facto amnesty factories for unvetted illegals, the Trump Administration is remaking the broken system.
President Trump took decisive action, replacing activist judges — who slow-walked deportations and granted asylum at sky-high rates — with professionals committed to enforcing the law, not undermining it.
No more activist judges shielding criminal illegals. No more endless delays. Only results.
- Asylum grant rates have collapsed: Under President Trump, asylum is now granted in just 7% of cases — a historic low, plummeting from over 50% rubber-stamped under Biden.
- Deportations and removal orders are surging: In fiscal year 2025, immigration courts issued nearly 500,000 removal orders — a 57% increase over the prior year — as criminal illegals are removed faster and in far greater numbers than ever before.
- The massive court backlog is being slashed: Hundreds of thousands of cases have already been cleared since Inauguration Day, with reductions accelerating every month — ending the years-long delays that let illegals remain indefinitely.
- Overall enforcement is delivering results: More than three million illegals have left the country in President Trump’s second term — the largest reduction in illegal immigration in modern history — while zero illegals have been released at the border for 11 straight months.
President Trump promised to end the open borders nightmare — and he is delivering on that promise with unrelenting force. The era of catch-and-release, mass releases, and activist judicial amnesty is over.
