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The U.S. had just over 300,000 open immigration cases in 2012, but there are now 2.5 million, according to government data obtained and published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Prioritizing newer cases has caused the average wait times to drop, as cases are pending for an average of two years, compared with 2.5 years in 2021, the TRAC data shows. Further, the average wait time for asylum hearings is four years, compared with 4.7 years in 2021.
In Omaha, Nebraska, where the immigration court has fallen behind more than nearly anywhere else, three judges oversee 32,000 cases, which have gone undecided for an average of nearly three years.
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