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The administration has pledged to slash the ever-growing immigration court backlog—908,552 cases are pending, according to data compiled by Syracuse University data research center the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. When the administration endeavored to slash the little existing legal counsel the federal government offers to people facing immigration court proceedings—and in countless subsequent instances—it was not immediately clear whether the administration had ever intended in earnest to slash the backlog. In April, Trump suggested to reporters that he "get rid" of the entire asylum system and immigration court judges in order to clear the backlog, but legal experts say he does not have the power to do so.
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