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Santa Fe New Mexican
March 15, 2025

Legal migration grows increasingly unfeasible amid record-high backlogs
By André Salkin


Approval rates for defensive asylum cases vary widely among countries of origin, with an overall rate of 35.8% in October, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. In fiscal year 2024, the approval rate was 16.6% for Mexican asylum-seekers, while the rate was 64.5% for Venezuelans.


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