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The number of unresolved local immigration cases again hit an all-time high in fiscal 2011. The backlog grew by about 37 percent over last year, the third-steepest increase in the nation, according to a December analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonprofit group at Syracuse University that tracks federal law enforcement activities.
The backlog mirrors a national trend experts say is a consequence of stepped- up immigration enforcement and a shortage of immigration judges. It also leads to longer wait times for immigrants, some of whose lives remain in limbo while their cases are unresolved.
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