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In addition to the 3.6 million pending cases, "asylum cases are much more complicated than your run-of-the-mill deportation cases," Kocher said.
"So, it's not just that there are so many people affected, but it's also cases that are likely going to be very complicated and could just overall just be more taxing on immigration court resources," Kocher added.
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The number of pending deportation cases in courts across the country has swelled to almost 3.6 million as of the end of April, almost 1.3 million of which are asylum cases, while many immigrants continue to get deported without legal representation, according to a report issued by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse on Wednesday.
The immigration court backlog stood at approximately 2.8 million cases in the last fiscal year, rising to 3,596,317 pending active cases as of the end of April. Out of the total backlog, 1,278,654 noncitizens have filed asylum applications, according to the data research organization Trac.
Austin Kocher, research assistant professor with Trac, told Law360 that the increasing number of asylum seekers is "huge" compared to 10 to 15 years ago, when that number was under 10%.
In addition to the 3.6 million pending cases, "asylum cases are much more complicated than your run-of-the-mill deportation cases," Kocher said.
"So, it's not just that there are so many people affected, but it's also cases that are likely going to be very complicated and could just overall just be more taxing on immigration court resources," Kocher added.
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