Cancellations slow already backlogged immigration courts

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Immigration courts field hundreds of thousands of cases annually. But right now they’re shuttered, and almost everyone from the judges to the support staff have missed their first paycheck of the year. KCRW’s Saul Gonzalez looks at one of the busiest immigration courts in the system in Los Angeles.

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