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Aljazeera
July 3, 2021
Indigenous asylum seekers struggle for interpreters in US By Luis Chaparro
	The US immigration court system already has more than 1.3 million backlogged cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. At least 40 different languages are spoken by the nearly 30,000 migrants who had pending cases as of January, 2021 according to data obtained by TRAC. “Although Indigenous and other rare languages make up a small number of pending MPP cases—just 337 out of 29,423—the need for language access presents unique challenges for both migrants and the Immigration Courts”, according to an April 26 TRAC report. External Link
	Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University Copyright 2021