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Reflecting the nationwide trend of courts slammed by the thousands of immigrants arriving at the nation’s borders, the court faces a massive increase in backlogged cases. As of March, the backlog in Illinois had grown to 235,200 — up from 47,462 in 2020, according to TRAC.In most of those cases, people are fighting on their own to stay in the U.S.
Only one out of four immigrants had a lawyer among the 211,096 persons whose cases were backlogged in Chicago as of Dec. 2023, according to research done by the Transactional Records Analysis Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.
That put the Chicago court among those with lower rates of representation. In comparison, the rate was 49% in California and 44%in New York state.
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