Friday, May 17, 2024
New TRAC Report: Two-Thirds of Court Asylum Applicants Over Past Decade Found Legally Entitled to Remain
A new report published by TRAC today finds that over the past decade, 66% of all immigrants in removal proceedings who filed asylum applications were entitled to remain in the United States. This includes people who were granted asylum, but also others whose cases were closed in other ways.
The report finds: The latest Immigrant Court records show that over the past decade (FY 2014 to April 2024) Immigration Judges have adjudicated just over one million removal cases in which the immigrant filed an asylum application. Out of these 1,047,134 cases, Judges determined that 685,956 immigrants were legally entitled to remain in the United States because they merited asylum or another form of relief from deportation. Another 332,552 immigrants were ordered removed, and an additional 28,626 immigrants were issued voluntary departure orders. Thus, in total, only about a third (34%) of immigrants in removal proceedings who filed asylum applications were ordered deported while two-thirds (66%) were allowed to remain in the country."
See the latest report here: https://trac.syr.edu/reports/742/
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2024/05/new-trac-report-two-thirds-of-court-asylum-applicants-over-past-decade-found-legally-entitled-to-rem.html