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About 2 million cases are pending in immigration court today, 18,000 of which are in Arizona. A new report offers recommendations on addressing the backlog.
Muzaffar Chishti with the Migration Policy Institute says that this level of backlog in immigration courts is a new phenomenon, created in part by the increase in asylum cases and influx of people at the border due to economic and political crises in the Americas.
Today, 40% of all immigration cases are asylum claims, which are more complex and take longer to resolve. Chishti says currently it can take up to four years just to get the first hearing.
In Tucson there is a backlog of 1,500 cases in immigration court, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonprofit data gathering organization at Syracuse University.
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