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One thing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and immigration activists can agree on is that there is a huge backlog of immigration court cases at the southern border.
And they’ve been increasing since 2016, according to Syracuse University's TRAC Immigration database, which monitors U.S. federal immigration enforcement.
As of now, there are 714,067 pending immigration cases, according to the database.
By comparison, there were just over 400,000 in 2014, just over 450,000 in 2015 and more than 515,000 in 2016, the most recent year for which data is available.
The courts in New York, Los Angles, San Francisco and Houston are experiencing the biggest backlogs, data show.
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