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Although Biden issued an executive order to end the program in early 2021, the screening programs were actually used for less than five months from 2019 to early 2020 and were stopped by the coronavirus pandemic and the implementation of Title 42, which has since barred migrants from crossing the border from Mexico to claim asylum in the United States.
But migrants have continued to come to the border and cross and many vulnerable populations have proven they have a legitimate credible fear of returning to their home countries. This has led to an increase in immigration court cases.
Currently, there are over 2.1 million pending cases, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of Syracuse University, which tracks all immigration cases nationwide.
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