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Immigration,
Government

Sep. 7, 2018

Immigration court backlog rising rapidly in the state, country

California’s immigration court backlog is the largest in the country, and the number of pending cases is increasing, according to a new report.

California’s immigration court backlog is the largest in the nation, and the number of pending cases is increasing, according to a report.

Released last week by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse of Syracuse University, the report found 140,676 cases pending in California as of July 31, up from 95,252 in 2017. The 48 percent increase comes amid new federal priorities that attorneys believe will balloon the backlog even mo...

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