FACT CHECK: Are 80% Of Asylum Court Cases Not Approved? – IOTW Report

FACT CHECK: Are 80% Of Asylum Court Cases Not Approved?

Saturday, 30 June 2018, 7:00 MJA Uncategorized 7

DC: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a Fox News interview that about 80 percent of people seeking asylum in immigration court do not receive it.

Verdict: True

About 80 percent of asylum cases in immigration court are denied or otherwise closed. That figure does not include thousands of people granted asylum outside of court.

Fact Check:

Nielsen mentioned the large portion of asylum-seekers who are not granted asylum after the Trump administration announced a “zero tolerance” policy toward illegal immigration on the southern border.

“About 80 percent pass that initial interview, but only 20 percent are granted asylum by a judge, which tells us that 80 percent of that is either just a flat-out fraud or somebody who thinks they can come here because they want a job here,” she said in a Fox News interview in May.

Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, also mentioned the figure on “Face the Nation” Sunday. “When [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] was in our office just a week-and-a-half ago, they told me 80 percent of the folks seeking asylum wind up not getting it, they are not actually eligible for it,” he said. “So they’re telling me the number; 80 percent aren’t actually legitimate asylum seekers. We need to sort that out.”  MORE

7 Comments on FACT CHECK: Are 80% Of Asylum Court Cases Not Approved?

  1. Nielsen also said something that made sense to me – asylum should only be considered for those who present themselves at a legal port of entry.

    The AG for Texas stated that law provides anyone caught illegally within the first 100 miles can be deported without any hearing – no due process applies.

    Why don’t we follow both rules? Offer a bounty to any American who catches illegals within 100 miles of the border. That takes care of Sanctuary cities lime SF, Portland, LA, Phila, NY, too.

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  3. Build the wall. Illegal asylum seekers are brought to one of the several Induction Towers. They are taken up and they see a Judge right there. If asylum is denied, the Judge hits a button and the Illegal Immigrants disappear through a trap door and go down a bouncy house slide where they come to rest at the bottom of the wall.
    On the outside.

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