Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
“The nation’s immigration-court backlog swelled by more than a million cases in 2023, as the number of migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border surged,” USA Today reports.
“The backlog surpassed 3 million cases in November, rising from 1.9 million cases in September 2022.”
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