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    Trump plan fails to cut immigration court backlog; caseload soars 26 percent

    by Molly O'Toole, Los Angeles Times Feb 21, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The Trump administration's controversial plan to shrink the ballooning backlog of immigration cases by pushing judges to hear more cases has failed, according to the latest data, with the average wait for an immigration hearing now more than two years.

    Since October 2017, when the Justice Department approved a plan aimed at reducing the backlog in immigration court, the pending caseload has grown by more than 26 percent, from 655,932 cases to just shy of 830,000, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Access Records Clearinghouse, which tracks data from immigration courts.

    Even that figure likely understates the backlog because it doesn't include the impact of the 35-day government shutdown

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