TRAC: Immigration Court Asylum Grant Rates Cut in Half
Over the last twelve months, the Immigration Court asylum grant rate has been cut in half. During August 2025, only 19.2 percent of asylum seekers were granted asylum. A year earlier during August 2024, the grant rate was 38.2 percent.
"While the rhetoric has sharply changed in the transition from the former Biden administration to the Trump administration, the most recent declines under President Trump were actually a continuation of the declining grant rate that had already been occurring under former President Biden. Indeed, [data] shows a steady decline in grant rates without any apparent shift or break in these trends when administrations changed. . . . The Trump administration, however, greatly increased the pace at which asylum decisions were being handed down."
