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The judicial process — one small piece of a long, expensive deportation machinery — illustrates vividly the complexity ahead. The big picture: The U.S. immigration system's backlog of 3.7 million court cases will take four years to resolve at the current pace — but that could balloon to 16 years under President-elect Trump's mass deportation plan,