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While lifting Title 42 would bring in large numbers of migrants seeking asylum, they face a long journey to remaining because the asylum backlog was at a historic high of more than 2 million as of November, according to a recent analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
That is in sharp contrast to 10 years ago, when the asylum backlog was at 100,000.
Asylum cases are accumulating fast. The clearinghouse's data show that in the first two months of fiscal year 2023, which started in October 2022, a total of 170,398 new cases have been recorded, doubling the total of 85,862 cases completed at the same time.
Florida, Texas and California are the top three states with the most pending cases, followed by New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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