In his speech in Georgia on Monday to encourage supporters in that state to vote in Tuesday's election, President Donald Trump said that people seeking asylum in the United States do not attend their appointments in immigration court.
That is false.
"So far, no one has appeared" (in court), Trump said in reference to the immigrants detained in the United States and released while they are summoned to a hearing in an immigration court that will decide their asylum application.
"Literally hardly anyone goes," he added falsely.
[The lies that Trump told in his call to the Secretary of State of Georgia]
It is not the first time that Trump has alleged this.
He also did so in the second presidential debate with now president-elect Joe Biden in October.
However,
the truth is literally the opposite of what it says.
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According to the most recent data from immigration courts analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, more than 81% of all immigrants seeking asylum attend their first hearings in cut.
When immigrants have a lawyer, 99.9% comply with their citations.
TRAC highlights that
these numbers are "remarkably high"
considering that immigration courts often do not notify families of the date and place of their hearings well in advance.
The data analyzed by TRAC includes 46,743 families and the result is that
“with rare exceptions, practically all the families attended their court hearings when they had legal representation”.
Families who do not attend their subpoenas do not necessarily do so because they want to be absent, but because they “just haven't received notice of their hearing” or
received notifications in English that they cannot read.
To make matters worse, many families released at the border have no idea where they are going to live, so getting them a summons becomes almost impossible.
In fiscal year 2020 (which culminated in September), immigration judges granted asylum in 26% of the cases they saw.
The rejection rate was almost 72%, compared with about 55% in the last fiscal year of the administration of former President Barack Obama.
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