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While public attention has been focused on the plight of juveniles arriving at our borders and their growing numbers, unaccompanied children make up a small proportion of those impacted by the current administration's enforcement activities. Although the recorded number of new Immigration Court juvenile cases during the last three months (April - June 2014) has doubled over the previous six months of this fiscal year (October 2013 - March 2014), these cases still make up only 11 percent of the Immigration Court's backlog — a total of 41,641 pending juvenile cases out of the total backlog of 375,503 cases. See Table 2 and Figure 1.
Table 2. Pending Workload in Immigration Courts*
Juvenile Cases 41,641, 11%
Other cases 333,862, 89%
total 375,503, 100%
*as of June, 30, 2014
[Reprinting with permission a TRAC report.]
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