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And that’s another prediction Schmidt has for 2019: The immigration court backlog will worsen. As of the end of November, Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse put the backlog at 809,401 pending cases, a 49 percent increase over January of 2017. Schmidt believes it’ll get worse, thanks to decisions by the Trump administration that limit immigration judges’ ability to close cases without a decision or continue cases, and encourage the Department of Homeland Security to reopen old cases that were closed without a decision. And Schmidt says the courts could be further tied up by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Pereira v. Sessions, which gave certain immigrants another shot at proving their cases to stay here because of defects in the government’s notices to appear in court.
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