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International Journal of Educational Management
2017

An Unlikely Destination: Meeting the Educational Needs of Immigrant, Migrant and Refugee Children in the Suburbs of Chicago, IL
By Marla Israel, Nancy Goldberger, and Elizabeth Vera Amy Heineke


Chicago’s immigration court, in particular, boasts the second-highest wait times in the country, according to a September analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Nearly 17,000 immigration cases are pending in Chicago; the typical case here is already 2½ years old, and on average, isn’t expected to reach a conclusion until late in 2017. So clogged is the Chicago court, that some cases aren’t being scheduled for hearings until the summer of 2020.......[Citing TRAC research].


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