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“One of the things that we’re learning is just how much regional and local variation there is. The way that things work in Brownsville may not be exactly how they work in Reynosa, or how they work in San Diego or El Paso. And so by spending some time on the ground and talking to people in the system who are going through the system, we just want to understand with much greater depth, the kind of work that we’re doing so we can help it make more sense to the public,” he said.
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Fast-tracked immigration cases appear to be hurting migrants’ chances of being granted asylum, researchers are finding.
“The big takeaway message is that the Biden administration really is trying to speed up cases but data shows when you speed up cases they lose,” Syracuse University professor and researcher Austin Kocher told Border Report as he toured the South Texas border on Wednesday.
Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, one of the nation’s leading researchers on immigration court cases, on Tuesday released a study that found that since July, asylum grant rates have fallen and it “coincides with the extremely rapid increase in expedited cases.”
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