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Fueled by unprecedented border crossings, a record 3 million cases clog
U.S. immigration courts
By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO
Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — Eight months after
crossing the Rio Grande into the
United States, a couple in their
20s sat in an immigration court
in Miami with their three young
children. Through an interpreter,
they asked a judge to give them
more time to find an attorney to file
for asylum and not be deported
back to Honduras, where gangs
threatened them.
Judge Christina Martyak agreed
to a three-month extension, re-
ferred Aarón Rodriguéz and Cindy
Baneza to free legal aid provided
by the Catholic Archdiocese of
Miami in the same courthouse
— and their case remains one
of the unprecedented 3 million
currently pending in immigration
courts around the United States.
Fueled by record-breaking increas-
es in migrants who seek asylum
after being apprehended for cross-
ing the border illegally, the court
backlog has grown by more than
1 million over the last fiscal year
and it’s now triple what it was in
2019, according to government
data compiled by Syracuse Uni-
versity’s Transactional Records Asylum applications in different languages are shown, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in a room used by Catholic Legal Services
Access Clearinghouse. for the Archdiocese of Miami to help asylum-seekers at an immigration court in Miami.
Associated Press
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