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Immigration judges nationwide completed 7.3 percent more cases in fiscal year 2015 than during the previous 12 months, reversing a six-year slide, according to a study by a Syracuse University-based data organization.
The judges cleared 198,105 cases during the fiscal year 2015, which ended on Sept. 30, up from 184,597 during the preceding year, according to the study released Thursday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The organization did not include an analysis in its study to explain the upward shift, the first since President Barack Obama’s first year in office.
Immigration Courts Increase Case Closings by 7.3%: Report
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By Kevin Penton
Law360, New York (October 16, 2015, 5:32 PM ET) -- Immigration judges nationwide completed 7.3 percent more cases in fiscal year 2015 than during the previous 12 months, reversing a six-year slide, according to a study by a Syracuse University-based data organization.
The judges cleared 198,105 cases during the fiscal year 2015, which ended on Sept. 30, up from 184,597 during the preceding year, according to the study released Thursday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The organization did not include an analysis in its study to explain the upward shift, the first since President Barack Obama’s first year in office.
The five states with the most closings — California, Texas, New York, Florida and Georgia — all saw their year-to-year case completions increase, with California leaping over Texas to take the number one slot, with 37,333 closings, and Georgia seeing its year-to-year percentage shoot up by 25.8 percent, according to the study.
States that bucked the trend included Arizona, with a 3.1 percent decrease; Illinois, with a 9 percent decrease; and North Carolina, with a 0.7 percent decrease, according to TRAC.
“Because the total only includes information as of September 30, this number may rise once any delayed recordings of case outcomes become available,” said the study, referring to the overall figures.
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