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Asylum seekers in the U.S. have to meet five protective grounds to prove they are fleeing persecution. That gives migrants from countries like Cuba, where officials have routinely jailed and repressed dissenters in the past year over a wave of anti-government protests, a good case to fight for asylum. But even then, Porras said, it’s not a given. As an example, only 17% of asylum cases that were processed in Miami were granted in the month of July, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, one of the most reliable sources for national immigration court data. The vast majority of asylum cases overall — about 83% — were denied. Broken down by nationality, seven Cuban migrants were granted asylum in July in the Miami immigration court system. That represents about 58% of the asylum cases, according to TRAC’s numbers. By comparison, for Haitians, that figure was 5.26% — or just one Haitian migrant who was granted asylum status.
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