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Immigration judges -- employees of the Justice Department -- are charged with following the policies set by each administration and ultimately deciding an immigrant's future in the US. Those judges face a court backlog that's almost equivalent to the size of Philadelphia's population, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks immigration court data.
Last year, the backlog reached nearly 1.6 million cases, with cases climbing more rapidly between October and December, the clearinghouse found. In other words, cases have been piling on faster than judges can keep up, resulting in the largest increase on record last quarter.
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