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"Shutdown stalled immigration cases; An already slow court system was set back further" by Amy Taxin | Associated Press, February 23, 2014
While the country’s immigration courts are now running as usual, immigrants who had hoped to have their cases resolved in October so they could travel abroad to see family or get a job have instead had their lives put on hold.
Many had already waited years to get a hearing date in the notoriously backlogged courts, which determine whether immigrants should be deported or allowed to stay in the country.
Now, some hearings have been pushed into later this year, and thousands more have been shelved until 2015 or later....
The delays triggered by last year’s federal government shutdown that closed national parks and furloughed government workers further strained an immigration court system already beset with ballooning caseloads, yearslong waits and a shortage of judges....
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