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June 8, 2018
Immigration court backlog hits all-time high, days before Sessions speech to immigration judges The backlog is up by a third under Trump even though the pace of By Alan Pyke
	Immigration courts have slowed dramatically and their case backlog has jumped by a full third since January 2017, according to figures released just three days before Attorney General Jeff Sessions will address a conference of immigration judges. The nationwide backlog hit an all-time high of 714,067 cases in May, an alarming 32 percent jump from where things stood when Trump was inaugurated, according to statistics released Friday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). There are 171,656 more human beings awaiting an immigration court’s decision on their fate than when he took office. External Link
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