A Look at Immigrant Children Winning Asylum in Numbers

Associated Press

June 1, 2016

A Look at Immigrant Children Winning Asylum in Numbers 

A Look at Immigrant Children Winning Asylum in Numbers

LOS ANGELES — More than 10,000 unaccompanied immigrant children arriving on the border over the past two years have applied for asylum. As of January, asylum officers had decided on nearly 5,800 of their applications, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.

The approval rate for the cases varied widely across the U.S. government's eight asylum offices.

Here's a look at the offices handling these children's cases:

Asylum Office	Decisions Rendered	Approval Rate	Coverage area
Arlington, Virginia	248	30%	Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia, parts of Pennsylvania
Chicago	529	15%	Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Houston	646	16%	Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming
Los Angeles	1,040	53%	Arizona, Hawaii, Guam, parts of California and Nevada
Miami	902	21%	Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Newark, New Jersey	917	33%	Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, parts of New York and Pennsylvania
New York	835	29%	Parts of New York
San Francisco	677	86%	Alaska, Oregon, Washington, parts of California and Nevada

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