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Bloomberg Law
March 17, 2026

Unconventional Judge Is Managing Trump’s Court Deportation Blitz
By Celine Castronuovo


As an immigration judge, Riley denied asylum in 81% of cases from 2019 to 2025 in Cleveland, where judges had an average denial rate of roughly 75%, according to government data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. That’s substantially higher than the national average denial rate for the same period, which was approximately 59%.


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