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As Texas grapples with skyrocketing numbers of migrants at its borders, new figures show the scale of the problem in its immigration courts, which have become bogged down in a huge backlog of cases.
The figures, which come from federal data collated by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (an independent body monitoring the federal government), will make for grim reading in Texas as the state struggles with surging numbers of migrants crossing into the U.S. at its southern border with Mexico.
The backlog of cases clogging up the U.S. court system has soared to more than 3 million across the country in the past year, with some 458,630 in Texas alone. The numbers have seen a significant jump since 2012, when just 40,051 immigration cases were pending in the state.
It is likely to provide little more than cold comfort for Texans to learn that the backlog is even higher in Florida. The Sunshine State has 481,376 cases outstanding, a huge spike compared to 2012 when just 17,645 cases were pending, according to the data.
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