Justice Department Cuts Migrant Asylum Wins by 90%

Asylum courts got a reset. Congress should make it stick

I’ve sat through enough depositions to know that a number without context is a trap. So here’s the number everyone’s quoting. Immigration judges denied 94% of asylum cases decided in June and granted 5.5%, the lowest rate in the records kept by Syracuse University’s TRAC data project. I think the asylum courts needed a reset, […]

Justice Department Cuts Migrant Asylum Wins by 90%

President Donald Trump's deputies have reduced the success rate for migrants' asylum claims to five percent, or just one-tenth of the approval rate under President Joe Biden.