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The immigration backlog currently stands at about at 800,000 cases nationwide, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an organization at Syracuse University.
A majority of the cases that were going to be heard during the shutdown are on hold.
People who come before an immigration judge are either currently in detention or out in the community.
They break down into two different groups for judges handling their cases, the detained and the non-detained docket.
Only one of these groups is showing up before the judge during the shutdown, according to Judge Ashley Tabaddor speaking as National Association of Immigration Judges President.
"Judges who are overseeing the detained docket, which means the cases of those who are in ICE custody, those judges are going to work even though everyone is on a non-paid status. Which means that a vast majority of our cases, which are our non-detained docket, those cases are not being heard," says Tabaddor.
There's a backlog of over 114,000 cases in Texas, over 4,000 in Harlingen and 840 in Los Fresnos, according to TRAC.
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