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The immigration court backlog in the US as soared to more than 800,000 cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, with average times extending nearly two years.
Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America, said smugglers are telling people in Central America the time to leave is now, before the Trump administration makes another attempt to make it more difficult to get into the US.
"If we were still with Obama and nobody was threatening that the migrant apocalypse was about to come and smugglers couldn't use that as a sales pitch," Isacson told BuzzFeed News. "It's very easy if you're trying to get the sale to say, 'Go now before the next crackdown.'"
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