Thread: Report: Immigration judges approving more asylum bids

Sep 02, 2010

Report: Immigration judges approving more asylum bids

06:48 PM

U.S. immigration judges are approving nearly half of all requests for asylum, a dramatic turnaround from the mid-1980s, when only about 10% were granted, according to a new analysis of Justice Department records. Denial rates are at their lowest in 25 years.

In its fifth annual report, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse also found that the total number of asylum requests has been falling, that a higher proportion of asylum seekers use lawyers, and that disparities in denial rates among judges "remain a pervasive problem."

Read the analysis of hundreds of thousands cases, plus reports on 253 judges.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... lum-bids/1

More Info @

http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/240/

http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/judgereports/