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US immigration judges have denied 3,844 – or 57% – of the 6,708 asylum requests presented by Nicaraguans between January 2018 and May of 2023. The data was collected by the University of Syracuse’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a non-partisan organization based in Washington D.C that gathers, researches, and distributes statistics.
The data was compiled from public information regarding appearances and verdicts from the US Immigration Courts.
Texas is the state with the highest number of court appearances to request political asylum, with a total of 307. It’s followed by California with 295; Florida with 179; Illinois with 92; New York with 70; and Louisiana with 63 petitions.
The report indicates that during the current Federal fiscal year that runs from October 1, 2022 to September 30 2023, to date 1,438 Nicaraguans have appeared at court hearings asking for asylum. Of these, 724 (50.3%) were denied, 704 (48.9%) were approved, and in ten instances a different form of relief was offered. The migrants had legal assistance 81% of the time.
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