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As the effects of the partial government shutdown continue to play out, what's happening in the immigration courts?
In May, The Show talked to the secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Immigration Judges, Judge Lawrence Berman. He said there was about 700,000 backlogged cases in immigration courts nationwide — and that was before the partial government shutdown that ended Friday.
Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, estimated that, if the shutdown lasted until Feb. 1, the immigration court backlog would’ve grown by another 100,000 cases nationwide. But as we know, it ended just shy of that.
The total for Arizona’s backlog in that time? Over 2,000 cases.
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