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Do Many People Gain Asylum from Mexico?
Despite its close proximity, only about 300-800 people from Mexico are granted asylum in the U.S. each year. According to the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 667 Mexican nationals who submitted an affirmative U.S. asylum application were granted asylee status in 2015. That number is higher than the norm. For example, only 202 affirmative Mexican asylum cases were approved in 2013.
For grants of asylum in removal proceedings,
only 203 out of nearly 9,000 applications in 2015 were eventually approved by immigration judges. That is a grant rate of only 2.3% Mexican asylum claims, compared with a 48% approval rate for all countries overall in the immigration courts.