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NBC DFW
February 6, 2025
How backlogged, overwhelmed immigration courts might slow deportation plans By Scott Friedman, Eva Parks and Edward Ayala
	mmigration courts located in Texas have the nation’s second-largest backlog, with more than 490,000 pending cases, according to researchers at the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), who analyze court data. In Dallas, the data shows the immigration courts located in a federal building downtown had a backlog of about 57,000 cases in 2020. That number has now grown to more than 232,000, an increase of roughly 300% over four years. External Link
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