Posted on 12/06/2018 7:15:09 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
.... immigration-asylum applications in Miami were denied at rates virtually unseen in two decades, according to data released today by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a group at Syracuse University.
Immigration officials denied 86 percent of asylum applications during the 2018 fiscal year.... That's the highest denial rate in Miami since at least 2001...
... the nation saw a massive spike in asylum and immigration-court decisions in 2018, which suggests the Trump administration is pushing courts to churn through immigration cases much faster. Most of the new decisions were denials. TRAC noted that, though denial rates initially spiked when Trump took office in 2017, the rates fell and then rose again this past June, when then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions significantly limited the ways in which judges are allowed to grant asylum.
"Fiscal year 2018 broke records for the number of decisions (42,224) by immigration judges granting or denying asylum," TRAC writes. "Denials grew faster than grants, pushing denial rates up as well. ...an 89 percent increase over the number of asylum decisions of two years ago."
Miami's immigration court heard the second-largest number of cases in America last year (3,285), behind only New York's. ...[snip]
. ..An asylum denial does not automatically lead to deportation — an "individual could have qualified for some other form of relief, or was otherwise found by the immigration judge to not be deportable and was accordingly allowed to remain in the country," TRAC notes....[snip]
In 2017, [Florida] saw the single largest jump in (ICE) arrests, according to federal data. In response ... rights groups issued a "travel warning" for immigrants coming to Florida.
Most are unaware that many asylum denials are "qualified for some other form of relief, or was otherwise found by the immigration judge to not be deportable and was accordingly allowed to remain in the country," WHAT?
Asylum claims are the new way to game the system. Cross illegally, claim asylum, and you’re in. No one crossing illegally should be eligible for asylum.
Good news, but it’s still not enough. We have to make it VERY hard for people to gain by being criminals. Freeper’s have to step up their game to ensure that Trump gets reelected.
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