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While seasonal spikes in encounters with undocumented immigrants at the Southwestern border have garnered media attention, overall numbers of the undocumented in the United States have stayed relatively stable over the past 15 years.
Even so, federal authorities have faced intense pressure to do something. A report released last week by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, shows they have — and created additional problems in the process.
In August, a record 180,000 deportation cases were filed with the U.S. Immigration Court. That’s almost 20% more than the previous high set in July — 152,000.
California, Florida, New York and Texas led the way in terms of the most deportation filings since the beginning of June for immigrants living in those states — 160,000, 150,000, 146,000 and 139,000, respectively.
Ohio was further down the list with 22,000. In total, federal authorities filed 1.2 million new deportation proceedings this year.
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