A group of Brazilian migrants is detained by United States border guards in Sunland Park, New Mexico
This data is the most striking of those that emerge from the new analysis carried out by the independent Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) center of Syracuse University in the state of New York.
When the migrant does not receive a favorable decision from a US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officer, they have the right to be heard by a judge. According to TRAC figures, trial court judges immigration they have heard more than 100,000 of these cases in the last 25 years.
If you do not pass this second evaluation in court, you will generally be immediately deported, except in exceptional cases. In general, there has been an increasing proportion of asylum officer decisions overturned by judges, just as the number of ‘well-founded fear’ cases raised by asylum seekers has been increasing.
In fiscal year 2010, those “well-founded fear” cases exceeded 1,000 per year; in 2014 they increased to more than 6,000, and were more than 12,000 in 2019, according to the university’s data analysis. This increase largely reflects the growing number of people seeking asylumin this country, particularly on the border line between the United States and Mexico, he adds.
It also indicates that in the last available 12-month period, USCIS asylum officers denied migrants’ requests for “well-founded fear” 32 percent of the time, but when they went before a judge that figure dropped to 23 percent.
Appeals from Latin Americans the least accepted by judges
In the time elapsed during the government of Democratic President Joe Biden, from fiscal year 2021 to February 2023, immigration judges have issued nearly 36,000 decisions, of which 10,000 were favorable to immigrants.
Court records during this administration show that Armenians, although in a relatively small number of asylum applications (47), lead the highest rate of approval by an immigration judge at 70%, followed by Cameroon (68%). and Syria (65%).
Latin Americans were the least successful in their applications before the judge, with the Dominican Republic (19%), Costa Rica (16%) and Brazil (16%) in the last places of the decisions. Colombians had the most total cases, with 7,255 cases, but judges ruled in favor of only 28% of cases.
jov (efe, trac.syr.edu)
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