Concerns over U.S. court backlog grow with rising border prosecutions

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - At the height of President Barack Obama's crackdown on illegal crossings from Mexico seven years ago, San Diego's federal courts were so clogged that immigrants arrested near the border sometimes slept on the floor of border patrol stations for days before seeing a judge.

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