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Almost 1.3 million asylum seekers are currently waiting for a judge immigration define their cases, amid an unprecedented impasse of cases in the courts of U.Saccording to an analysis revealed this Friday by Syracuse University.
Of the 3,596,317 pending cases, 1,278,654 belong to immigrants who filed formal asylum requests and are now awaiting hearings or being notified about decisions taken by the end of last month, detailed the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), of the New York Commission. York. university that has kept the count since 2008.
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The immigration court backlog has set a record of more than 1.3 million new filings so far in fiscal year 2024.
The judges of immigration They also set a record for completed cases at 517,675.
“Although immigration judges cannot keep up with the flow of new cases coming to court, they are collectively on track to complete more cases than ever before by the end of this year,” warns TRAC in its report.
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Of the completed cases, immigration judges have issued deportation orders or voluntary departure orders, which require the immigrant leave the country on their own in 35.7% of all cases.
Among those completed last April, the immigrants in Colorado, they had the highest proportion, with negative decisions ordering their deportation. In contrast, immigrants who have their cases in Vermont immigration court had the lowest rate of these orders.
Miami-Dade County (Florida) has the highest number of immigrants who had deportation cases pending in court at the end of April 2024. Hondurans top the list of nationalities with the highest number of deportation orders expulsion.
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Only the 13.9% of immigrantsincluding unaccompanied children, had a lawyer to help them present their cases in court when a removal order was issued in April 2024.
Immigration judges have held 15,548 bail hearings so far in fiscal year 2024. Of those, 4,644 have been granted bail.
Source: Elcomercio
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