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Research Paper in Economics |
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December 4, 2025 |
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The Fractured Metropolis: Optimization Cutoffs, Uneven Congestion, and the Spatial Politics of Globalization
By Dong Yang
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We utilize data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC, 2024) regarding US Immigration Court backlogs. This is a definitive proxy for the failure of public administrative capacity to scale with globalization flows (M).The Trend: The data reveals a strictly exponential trajectory mirroring our textual index. Pending cases rose from approximately 500,000 in 2015 to an unprecedented 3.7 million by 2024
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2025
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