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February 10, 2014 |
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Immigrants deserve a properly staffed court system
By Donald Kerwin, Executive director of the Center for Migration Studies of New York
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Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse reports that the nation’s 249 immigration judges labor under a record backlog of 357,167 pending cases, with the average case pending for 570 days. The immense U.S. immigration enforcement system is drowning the court system.
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2014
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