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“Our new detailed report about asylum cases for this year shows a mixed bag. On the one hand, the success rate for asylum-seekers in immigration court has gone up since Joe Biden became president,” TRAC Assistant Professor Dr. Austin Kocher told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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A higher percentage of migrants were granted asylum under the Biden administration despite fewer applications filed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
Asylum grants increased from 29% under former President Donald Trump to 37% during the Biden administration, according to data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Nearly 24,000 asylum decisions were made during the fiscal year 2021 when COVID-19 restrictions and shutdowns were in effect compared to 60,000 in the fiscal year 2020.
“Our new detailed report about asylum cases for this year shows a mixed bag. On the one hand, the success rate for asylum-seekers in immigration court has gone up since Joe Biden became president,” TRAC Assistant Professor Dr. Austin Kocher told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“On the other hand, the immigration courts have not decided nearly as many cases as they did last year, which means in terms of total numbers, fewer total migrants have received asylum under the Biden administration this year compared to the Trump administration last year,” Kocher added.
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