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The immigration courts are intended to resolve who can stay in the U.S. and who cannot, but the system created in 1983 has become gridlocked for migrants arrested for being in the country illegally or who violate federal immigration laws because of competing priorities, the Wall Street Journal reported.
There were roughly 300,000 open immigration cases in 2012 — now there are 2.5 million, the report said, citing government data published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
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