Government Shutdown Contributing To Backlog Of Immigration Cases Across US

100,000 of the backlogged immigration cases are in Texas.

By Reynaldo Leaños Jr. January 7, 2019 10:00 am,

From Texas Public Radio:

The partial government shutdown is entering its third week and it’s not helping the current backlog of immigration cases across the country.

There’re an estimated 775,000 backlogged immigration cases throughout the U.S. and more than 100,000 of those cases are in Texas, according to the most recent data from Syracuse University.

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