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Mother Jones
August 6, 2026

She Followed ICE’s Advice to Self-Deport. Five Weeks Later, She Was Dead.
By Sophie Hurwitz


Records from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University show that there are 49,576 backlogged cases in the Kansas City Immigration Court, which oversees the state of Missouri. In the first half of 2026, over 95 percent of asylum applications processed by that court were denied. The same week Glendy and Nixon were killed, the Trump administration launched a new plan to expedite deportations of asylum seekers


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