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December 12, 2025

Trump Admin Fired NYC Immigration Judges With the Highest Asylum Grant Rates
By Mikella Schuettler


According to government data collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the judges who were fired on Dec. 1 were more likely to grant asylum. On average, they granted asylum 85.5% of the time — a rate more than 20 percent points higher than New York’s average prior to Trump taking office.


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