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“In recent months, the administration has doubled down on the detention of vulnerable individuals, engaging in the prolonged detention of asylum seekers without any individualized determination of community safety or flight risk,” says an October letter of protest from the ACLU and other immigrant rights’ advocacy groups.
The administration has doubled down on the detention of vulnerable individuals, engaging in the prolonged detention of asylum seekers without any individualized determination of community safety or flight risk.
Meanwhile, asylum requests are piling up, while approvals become harder to come by. According to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, 85,970 asylum requests were received by immigration courts for the first nine months of the past fiscal year, far more than the 65,218 received for the entire previous fiscal year.
But the approval rate has dropped from 55.5 percent in fiscal year 2012 to 43.5 percent in fiscal year 2016 to 38.2 percent last fiscal year, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Asylum requests in immigration courts continue to climb largely because of the growing number of people contesting deportation.
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