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Effect on asylum and immigration
The federal shutdown has interfered the legal procedures on pending immigration cases. Sixteen immigration courts out of 58 were closed, and as a result political asylum cases were delayed in the already backlog immigration system nationwide.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that processes immigration paper work was hardly impacted, because the agencies are primarily self-funded by fees. In terms of immigration regulation and border control, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security were also not impacted by the shutdown, and continued to operate on the nation's priority according to Gillian Christensen, the spokesperson of ICE.