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The government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s ask for border wall funding is likely increasing the immigration court backlog.
While cases for people in detention centers are going ahead as scheduled, those for people on the non-detained docket will be reset for new dates after the government is funded again. That means many hearings are being postponed in a system that is already clogged by more than 800,000 pending cases, according to the latest data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse out of Syracuse University.
San Diego’s non-detained docket has well over 4,000 cases pending.
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