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The Buffalo News |
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August 30, 2023 |
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The asylum system is broken. But can it be fixed? By Jerry Zremski |
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Proof of the system’s brokenness can be found in its statistics – which indicate that migrants are indeed seeking asylum as a last-resort way of staying in the United States when they aren’t really in danger. According to statistics compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, the six immigration judges in Buffalo and Batavia heard 1,760 immigration cases between fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2022–and rejected 70% of them. |
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