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June 21, 2021

Victims of Gang Violence Hope Biden's New Asylum Rules Provide Refuge
By Jeff Ernst and Emily Green


Winning asylum became exponentially harder under the Trump administration. More than 70 percent of asylum applications were denied in 2020, during Trump’s last year in office, compared to a denial rate of 54 percent, in the last year of the Obama administration, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), which tracks asylum cases.


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