We plucked this very interesting factoid from yesterday’s New York Law Journal: “Asylum seekers’ rate of success in the nation’s immigration courts is the highest it has been in 25 years and one significant factor is increased legal representation, new research has found. In fiscal year 1986, immigration judges denied almost nine out of ten asylum requests. In the first nine months of 2010, only half of the requests were rejected – a record low according to the Transactional Records Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan research organization at Syracuse University.”
The story goes on to state:
“One factor contributing to the improved success of the asylum seekers is that a higher proportion of the total are represented by counsel.”
