Asylum application approval rates migrants in USA suffered a significant drop, reaching their lowest level in three years, at 35.8 percent in October 2024, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of the Syracuse University.
This collapse reflects the adjustments in immigration policies of Joe Bidenwhile even stricter changes are anticipated with the return of Donald Trump to the White House.
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While requests coming from Eastern Europe and Asia continue with the highest acceptance rates, the situation of immigrants from Latin America It is considerably more difficult.
For example, the Russians have 85.4 percent approval and the Chinese have 76.6 percent. However, applicants from countries such as Mexico y Dominican Republic they face rates of just 16.6 percent and 11.1 percent, respectively.
This disparity is due to several factors, including the so-called “rocket files” (rocket docket), which prioritize cases with clear evidence of persecution, such as wars in Europe and the Middle East, while Latin American applicants often have to face more complex cases to substantiate, related to violence gang and political persecutions.
Today the EU has approved the Migration and Asylum Pact that buries the right to asylum and continues the path of externalizing borders or the criminalization of migrant children.
A racist and xenophobic pact that has had the PSOE as its main support pic.twitter.com/HKzQjCWfuC
— Isa Serra🙋🏽♀️ (@isaserras) April 10, 2024
Silent steps to closing borders for Latinos
During 2024, immigration courts issued a record number of 900 thousand resolutionswhich represented a considerable increase compared to the 665 thousand from the previous year. However, this volume of decisions does not translate into more asylum approvals, especially among Latin Americans.
Despite high approval rates for countries like Venezuela and Cubawhere their social and political situation is easier to present as persecution, applicants from countries like Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia or Dominican Republic They continue to be the most affected by the subjectivity of the process.
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The judicial system for migrants EU faces unprecedented overload, prolonging waits for many applicants and makes it difficult to approve cases that do not fit into clear categories of persecution.
As the Congress from EU prepares to debate new regulations in 2025, which will include more funding for judges and changes to judicial procedures, uncertainty over the future of asylum policy continues.
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