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As of June, there were nearly 9,000 pending immigration court cases for people with Lawrenceville ZIP codes in their addresses, more than any other individual Georgia municipality. That’s according to an analysis of immigration court data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research institute at Syracuse University. County-level data compiled by TRAC underscore Gwinnett’s position on the frontlines of Georgia’s immigration influx. Starting in 2020, Gwinnett has led the state every fiscal year in the number of newly filed immigration cases, reaching over 10,000 in both 2023 and 2024. Lilburn, Chamblee, Doraville, and Norcross also account for some of the highest numbers of pending cases at the municipality level statewide.
Backlogs in the nation’s immigration court system currently allow most people to spend years in the U.S. before they have to come before a judge for a final decision on whether they can ward off deportation.
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