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Lawyers and advocates only expect the operational bottleneck and risks to migrants caused by the current asylum restrictions to get worse under the new rules.

Now, many migrants who are ineligible under the May 2023 rule still end up released into the U.S. because of a lack of asylum officers to screen everyone. Others cannot be deported because their home countries, such as Venezuela, will not accept deportations. These immigrants often end up in Houston’s immigration court, which currently has more than 93,000 pending cases according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

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