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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, based at Syracuse University, shows a slightly different geographic spread, with New York City accounting for about 9% of immigration summonses issued from June through August.
Houston and its home of Harris County in Texas and Chicago and its home of Cook County in Illinois are next.
TRAC said it counted 37 counties receiving at least 1,000 immigrants over those three months.
The arrivals are coming far faster than the immigration courts can handle them.
TRAC said 180,000 cases were added in August alone. Meanwhile, judges closed about 60,000 cases, or one-third of the incoming rate.
The total backlog of cases reached 2.6 million as of the end of August. That was roughly twice the pace in September 2020, near the end of the Trump administration.
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