Michael Wildes remembers the Zoom call with his clients clearly. The six adult children whose parents could face deportation stared back at him as he shared one way to help.

"And I explained to all the kids that were assembled, one of them has to join the military," he said.

Wildes said it would create what's called "parole in place."

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Immigration lawyers tell NY1 there has been a sharp rise in older cases that the government is trying to put back onto the active docket

These cases were effectively dormant as the noncitizen pursued an agreed upon status

A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said these cases had been delayed indefinitely

Immigration lawyers argue some of their clients are at the mercy of a slow system

"Where they create and imput

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