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Christina M Workman

Selected Works

2009

Asylum

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Two Years Later, How Far Have We Come: A Review Of The 2006 Measures Of Improvement To The Immigration Courts And Board Of Immigration Appeals, Christina M. Workman Mar 2009

Two Years Later, How Far Have We Come: A Review Of The 2006 Measures Of Improvement To The Immigration Courts And Board Of Immigration Appeals, Christina M. Workman

Christina M Workman

I have attaches for your review a copy of “How Far Have We Come: A Review of the 2006 Measures of Improvement to the Immigration Courts and Board of Immigration Appeals”. In this article I first explore the causes of large disparities in asylum denial rates both between and within Immigration Courts across the United States. In one Court alone, one judge grants asylum 9% of the time, while another judge on that same Court grants asylum 91% percent of the time. Critics of the Immigration Courts, including Federal Appellate Courts, have citied reasons including but not limited to poor …