So many immigrants appeared at the southern border seeking asylum in the first half of 2019 that the Federal immigration court’s backlog is now over a million cases — and that’s without more than a quarter million cases still being assessed.
CNN reports that court watchdogs tracking asylum cases at the border now report more than 1 million asylum cases awaiting adjudication. Syracuse University, which released a study on the matter last week, claims that there are an additional 300,000 cases that have yet to make it into the system, leaving those asylum seekers “pending” without a court date or legal status.
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