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The number of pending asylum cases has soared to historic highs, with more than 1.5 million people awaiting a decision in the Justice Department’s immigration courts or in the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University organization that tracks asylum and other immigration cases.
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