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The Washington Post
October 14, 2025

The U.S. saved him from the Taliban, but now it wants to send him back
By John Woodrow Cox


Immigration judges denied 76 percent of asylum claims between February and August, according to an analysis of data collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. That represents a 24 percent increase over the same period last year, and the total number of denials — more than 58,000 — is the highest during any seven-month stretch in at least a quarter century.


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