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According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, an organization at Syracuse University which seeks out and publishes statistics on immigration on the federal and state level, Shapiro rejected 59 percent asylum claims brought before him from 2007 to 2012, a rate higher than the national average. At Obama's initial hearing in January, his then-lawyer Scott Bratton said he would seek a green card for his client based on a section of immigration law which allows immigrants to seek a green card if they got to the US before 1972.
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