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The Herald Sun
August 30, 2017

Wildin Acosta asylum hearing postponed. What’s next for the former Riverside High student?
By Greg Childress and Cliff Bellamy


According to an analysis of court records by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data research group at Syracuse University, Couch grants asylum in only 18 percent of the cases he hears. “Couch is one of the most unjust judges in the country when it comes to granting asylum,” Martinez said. The letters written by local officials to Couch in support of Acosta share Acosta’s accounts of the danger he contends he faced from gangs before fleeing Honduras. Read more here: http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article170403682.html#storylink=cpy


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