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Policy and Public Interest Groups |
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The Pew Charitable Trusts |
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May 9, 2022 |
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States Band Together to Block Immigration Policy
By Kristian Hernández
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The administration’s proposed Asylum Office Rule, set to take effect May 31, is meant to reduce the average wait time for asylum-seekers to receive a decision in their case from years to months, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. As of March, immigration judges had nearly 1.7 million pending cases—the largest backlog in the country’s history, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2022
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