3 million border crossing cases clog US immigration courts | Jefferson City News Tribune

MIAMI (AP) -- Eight months after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States, a couple in their 20s sat in an immigration court in Miami with their three young children. Through an interpreter, they asked a judge to give them more time to find an attorney to file for asylum and not be deported back to Honduras, where gangs threatened them.

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