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Looking at a longer time horizon, across all pending and closed deportation cases on the Chicago detained docket over the past 10 fiscal years (2013 to 2022), only 37 percent of cases have involved counsel.21 Although the total number of cases on the Chicago detained docket has steadily decreased since 2019, including following the closure of ICE detention centers in Illinois in early 2022, representation rates have remained low, and there have been few organizations providing representation to people in detention, particularly now that detention has shifted to more remote areas many hours away from the Chicago immigration court .........[Citing TRAC data and reports].
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