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April 3, 2023
She Escaped North Korea and Now ICE Is Trying to Deport Her By Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio
	Through January 2023, there were only 16 pending cases of North Korean nationals in immigration court, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. Five of these were pending at the 26 Federal Plaza immigration court, New York City’s largest immigration court. Since fiscal year 2001, immigration courts have made decisions on 36 asylum cases for North Korean nationals in the U.S. Asylum status was granted to 25 of these individuals, and 11 were denied asylum, TRAC data shows. External Link
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