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When a caravan of Central American migrants recently showed up at the US border, many wondered what their odds of getting asylum would be.
The answer: Slim, if history repeats itself.
A look at asylum denial rates show extreme variances between the nationalities of people applying.
Asylum:
A protected status that allows people fleeing persecution to live legally in another country.
And Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador -- the three countries represented in this caravan -- have among the highest US asylum denial rates, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. But asylum seekers from Mexico and Haiti fared even worse.
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