Christopher Kahn
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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So in what's called the affirmative asylum process, which is the one that in which someone applies proactively with USCIS, a trained asylum agent will look at the case, speaks directly with the migrant and their attorney if they have one.
And really, the purpose of this is to understand the claim, see whether the person meets the criteria for protection.
And it's described even by the government as a non-adversarial interview.
That's kind of all about fact finding.
And in immigration court, it is an adversarial process.
Migrants have to prove their case before an immigration judge, a lot of whom don't have the same specialized training.
as those USCIS officers.
And there's also government lawyers who play a prosecutorial role in trying to get asylum claims denied by the judge.
So it's a much more challenging environment for someone to be able to prove their asylum case.
Yeah, so it could mean a larger chance that your case is denied.
So what we've seen is that across the immigration court system, asylum approval rates are down significantly.
And some groups put that at an estimate around that they're at their lowest point in at least two decades.
Immigration lawyers I spoke with said that migrants have a much better chance of getting their asylum case approved by a USCIS agent just because they're much more familiar with the
asylum law and the criteria that applicants have to meet.
There's also, for those who are maybe potentially funneled into that immigration court system, we've now seen across the country over the last few weeks that immigration courts have been holding what are called these master hearings.
And some of them have as many as 100 different cases crammed into one morning or afternoon court proceeding.
And experts say that there's a risk that this will prevent people from having a meaningful review of their asylum claims.
So there's a lot of paperwork that someone has to fill out in order to apply for asylum in their case.
So there could be anything from dates to the spelling of names, mismatches on some of the different immigration forms regarding maybe when events occurred or when the applicant left their home country.
The arrival date noted on travel tickets versus application forms is all these different things.
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