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As of March 2014, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, the average immigration court case took 516 days to complete — almost a year and a half. And cases take even longer to be processed when the immigrant ends up winning the case: an average of 772 days, or over two years. Again, it's not clear how many of those immigrants spend all two years in detention — but many of them may. One of the legal immigrants profiled in the Times story was detained for nineteen months — making $1 a day in the detention-center kitchen — before his case was resolved.
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