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The surge of women and children who crossed the border from Central America starting in 2014, has swelled the backlog of cases waiting to have their cases heard.
As of the end of April 2017, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, said the number of cases waiting to be adjudicated was at an all-time high of 585,930. The average wait is 670 days, with some individuals in San Francisco, where there are 42,000 backlogged filings, not assigned a court date for more than five years.
TRAC is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University.
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