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The situation is even more dire for those who entered the country irregularly. Data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University indicates that an additional 113,584 Nicaraguans are currently trapped in the "defensive" asylum system. These individuals were apprehended by border patrol agents and must present their cases before an immigration judge, a process that has been paralyzed by systemic understaffing and a massive accumulation of pending dockets.
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