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Since the start of Trump’s second presidency, Donoso Stevens had denied about 85 percent of her asylum claims, according to a Post analysis of Justice Department data. She largely ascribed the highest rate of her career to how much more difficult the board’s mandates made it to approve applications. Her replacement, Richard VanVeldhuisen, who joined the bench in 2023 and had never overseen a docket of detained immigrants, denied about 95 percent in his new assignment.
His rate mirrors the court’s soaring national averages in 2026. While the board’s decrees are limiting, legal experts say, judges have succumbed to immense pressure from the Trump administration to deny applications.
Citing: https://tracreports.org/reports/779/
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