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According to the nonpartisan data
clearinghouse TRAC at Syracuse University, the average wait time for an asylum hearing has reached nearly 4.5 years. Given that, detaining all applicants as they await trial is nancially prohibitive. So they are typically released into the U.S. According to an analysis of government data from 2008 to 2018 by the American Immigration
Council a non-profit advocacy group, 83 percent of non-detained immigrants, and 96 percent of those with a lawyer, attend their hearings.
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