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The New York Times
June 5, 2024

New York Is the Toughest Place in the Country to Apply for Asylum
By Nina Agrawal


The high rejection rate in the New York office means that many more cases end up in immigration courts, which are part of the Justice Department, in what can be a costly and lengthy process. And ultimately the vast majority of the requests for asylum referred to New York immigration courts — close to nine in 10 in some years — were granted by judges, according to data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.


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