About 65 percent of claims were denied, according by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, compared to 60 percent the year before. Overall, the number of court decisions on asylum claims rose in the last fiscal year by more than 10,000, to 42,224. One indication the figure has been rising: apprehensions along the border of people travelling with families jumped 42 percent to more than 105,000 in the last fiscal year. Nobody knows exactly how many immigrants are seeking asylum in the United States right now. The Department of Homeland Security has announced the protections for close to 9,000 people from Nepal will end this summer and for 57,000 immigrants from Honduras in 2020. A federal court judge in the Northern District of California recently blocked that move at least until April. The administration wants to eliminate protections for people from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan, who together account for the majority of the immigrants covered by the program. The Trump administration has also announced plans to end large parts of a program affecting 325,000 immigrants from countries deemed too dangerous to return to because of natural disasters or war. Supreme Court is now considering a petition from the White House to hear three cases challenging that policy. In 2017, the Trump administration announced it wanted to end the program. Under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, people whose families brought them to the United States as children without legal status received renewable two-year permits to forestall deportation. Here are some of the programs the administration is trying to change, their current status, and, where known, the number of people whose lives hang in the balance: DACAĬlose to 800,000 immigrants living in the United States are anxiously watching lawsuits that are trying to preserve the program that has allowed them to remain in the country legally. But in fact its immigration policies are affecting a wide variety of people-more than 1.1 million-many of whom live far from the Rio Grande. The Trump Administration says it is trying to secure the southern border of the United States from what it describes as a flood of criminals. Sign up for our newsletters to receive all of our stories and analysis. The Marshall Project is a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S.
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