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Of migrants who arrived at the southwest border in fiscal year 2014 and were allowed to pursue asylum claims, 39 percent were repatriated by the end of fiscal 2017, while just 10 percent of people who arrived in family units were returned within the same time frame. Only 3 percent of non-Mexican unaccompanied alien children were repatriated in three years or fewer, according to the DHS statistics.
Meanwhile, rates of denial for asylum claims were particularly high for people from countries producing the most asylum applicants. Between 2012 and 2017, 88 percent of petitioners from Mexico, 79 percent from El Salvador, 78 percent from Honduras and 75 percent from Guatemala were rejected, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
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