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 Putting TRAC to Work |
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August 6, 2024 |
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Immigration Raids in Jackson, Mississippi, Five Years Later: An Evidence-Based Analysis to Dissuade Mass Deportation Policy and Promote a New Immigration Pathway
By Christopher Ross, JD
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Sadly, the demand for immigration legal representation, particularly for asylum removal proceedings, has only increased nationwide. Legal representation rates have plummeted from 65% down to 30% over the past five years creating additional barriers and roadblocks to benefits such as employment authorization and ultimately the right to remain in the U.S. “The immigration court backlog has gone up to more than 3.5 million from 300,000 cases in 2012, with more than a million new cases added in the last year. Nonprofit legal aid groups and thousands of volunteer lawyers have provided free help, but lawyers say they can only do so much unpaid work — and there are far fewer qualified lawyers than clients.....[Citing TRAC data and reports].
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