As of May, 93% of asylum is being denied in immigration courts—record high—amounting to hundreds of thousands fewer lawful migrants.

‘Immigration judges are now issuing denials in virtually every case’ after rule changes and mass firings by the Trump admin cleaned the system. Our immigration system is full of bad rules and restrictions that the Trump admin is chipping away, changing and challenging to open up the deportation pipeline and expedite immigration denial. Doing so is how we keep pumping removal numbers up, which are already historically high.