Hey, has anyone visited TRAC Immigration and looked up asylum denial rates in US immigration courts?

October 2000-January 2025: 56% of cases denied
February-November 2025: 75% denied
December 2025: 84%
January 2026: 91%
February 2026: 95%

tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/asylum/

April 09, 2026 - 23:50 UTC

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Is this including pretermits?
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And how many of that vanishingly small percentage of approved cases are white South Africans?
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All but three of them! bsky.app/profile/flyingawaynow.bsky.social/post/3mj44qfaoi22q
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Cases are being denied without hearings
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Your periodic reminder that immigration judges are not Article III judges. They are employed by the DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review and appointed by the Attorney General. The EIOR’s stated goal is to do away with “open borders” and amnesty. Fox, meet henhouse.
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Which obviously the OP knows, but many non-lawyers do not.
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1. I got a big lawyer question - I am absolutely NOT a lawyer but I mean.... that is a pretty good claim for prima facie discrimination, potentially?  At the very least its a place to start, and a reason to get a BIG fucking crowbar to pry shit up for discovery." 1/
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/2   Your honor, you have the numbers in front of you, something changed starkly with only this administration.    We would allege a base level of discrimination is coloring all claims, and the motion to subpoena the internal communications of adminstration officials who
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Shameful!
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I understand that a few thousand white South Africans immigrated to the US though. Huh.
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bsky.app/profile/anamariecox.bsky.social/post/3miy6exfr7k2g
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Most countries are safer than the U.S. now anyway.
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This is one reason immigration Court's need to be put under the judicial branch and not the executive branch.
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It’s absolutely insane that this is how it’s structured.
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I was making this chart for a presentation, but... holy crap. Here's the source data: adamisacson.com/files/asylum_outcomes.html
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I now see the NY Times reported this data in a story that went up mid-morning today. See, if I'd only spent less time working and more time on social media, I'd have caught that.
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Neutral and detached judicial officers, yes sir just look at those numbers.
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