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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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