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As for refugees, recently there has been a historic increase in the number of such migrants trying to cross the U.S. border. Indeed, the number of backlogged immigration cases in the U.S. is rising each month with far more new cases being added than completed, according to new data published by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonprofit research organization that is part of Syracuse University. “In general, the number of cases from DHS into the court system just continues to dramatically outpace what immigration judges are able to complete,” said TRAC lead researcher Austin Kocher. That has left immigration judges trying to operate in a system that they say is reaching a breaking point. There's a backlog of 1.3 million asylum cases, and migrants keep coming. As one judge put it, "We are holding death penalty cases in a traffic court setting."
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