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The number of immigrants seeking asylum after arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has ballooned in recent years, leading to massive backlogs in immigration courts.
Increasingly, those people are seeing their cases rejected under the Trump administration.
According to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, the percentage of asylum applicants who ultimately saw their applications denied in court ranged from a high of 60% to a low of 40% in the years before Trump’s first term. They then climbed every year that Trump was in office before falling again during the Biden administration.
But according to the data, asylum rejection rates jumped by 22.5% during the first year of Trump’s second term.
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