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The backlog has been growing for more than a decade, but according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research institution at Syracuse University, a deluge of new cases added between October and December 2021 significantly worsened wait times.
TRAC analysis shows how the shutdown of immigration courts during the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the backlog, along with a surge in new cases filed by the Department of Homeland Security.
"If every person with a pending immigration case were gathered together it would be larger than the population of Philadelphia, the sixth largest city in the United States. Previous administrations — all the way back through at least the George W. Bush administration — have failed when they tried to tackle the seemingly intractable problem of the Immigration Court 'backlog,'" according to TRAC's latest analysis.
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