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The failure to allow the judges to manage their own cases, combined with a "swelling caseload" has created a massive backlog of cases. As the union noted, in 2020 the backlog of immigration cases was around 1.2 million. Now, the backlog has tripled to over 3.7 million. This data is confirmed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan project based at Syracuse University. The backlog includes nearly 1.7 million asylum cases.
TRAC data shows in Arizona, there are 309,000 cases currently waiting for a decision, and about 63 percent of those cases were filed because people entered the U.S. without inspection.
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