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The Trump administration is seeking to stem the flow of people illegally crossing the southwest border by severely restricting asylum in the United States. But it’s already nearly impossible to win that protection in Georgia.
Fewer than one in 10 people who applied for refuge in the Peach State’s federal immigration courts were successful between fiscal years 2013 and 2018, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research organization that monitors the government.
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of TRAC’s data shows Georgia’s two immigration courts — located in South Georgia and Atlanta — have the second and third highest average asylum denial rates in the nation at 95% and 94% for that same time-frame, respectively. Only the immigration court in Chaparral, N.M., had a higher average denial rate last year at 96%. The national average was 58%.
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