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Migrants who file asylum cases in New York or California are three times more likely to get their cases approved than if they pursue them in Republican-led Texas or Florida, new data shows.

Analyzing the outcomes of asylum cases in the two liberal states the top two destinations for new migrants entering the US shows 61% of cases in New York and 66% of cases in California being approved from January to August.

That presents a stark comparison to conservative Texas where 19% of cases have been granted and Florida, which approved just 23% of cases in the same time period, according to the data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

The average approval rate in asylum cases averaged 49% between 2013 and 2017 under Obama, 32% under Donald Trump and rose to 40% during the first months of Joe Bidens presidency, according to previous TRAC data. 5 Migrants who file asylum cases in New York or California are three times more likely to get their cases approved than if they pursue them in Republican-led Texas or Florida, new data shows.AP

The courts in Democrat governed New York and California also oversee the majority of asylum cases in the country, the number of which have exploded during the current migrant crisis, which began in in 2021.

Thousands of migrants still pour into the country daily due to the Biden administration failing to get tough and tighten the rules on immigration, mostly from Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Colombia, according to CBP data.

New York Citys leaders have repeatedly said they have run out of shelter space after opening 200 facilities and that they have nowhere to put newly arriving migrants after 160,000 have come to the city since Spring 2022 all asking for shelter, food and services, which New York Gov. Kathy Hochul estimates will cost $2 billion.  

Similarly, San Diego, California, has no room for new arrivals and has released over 13,000 asylum seekers onto the streets in recent weeks with officials saying many have been smuggled into the country and dont even know where they are. 5 Data shows California and New York are granting asylum in up to 66% of cases.

There are ways into America that we never envisioned. Congress has got to get its act together, Michael Wildes, managing partner of law firm Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. told The Post.

Its the Wild West. [Immigration courts] are understaffed, and they keep putting people into Manhattan hotels and similar facilities around the nation. Its compounding and turning into one of the biggest traffic jams Ive ever seen, he added.

Nationally, Customs and Border Protection admitted during their financial year, which ended September 30, over 900,000 people had been allowed into the country on humanitarian parole and were eligible to apply for asylum.

When a migrants are admitted to the US they are asked which destination they headed and given a Notice To Appear [NTA] at a court in that county, often years in the future as immigration courts are so backed up and oversubscribed. 5 New York Citys leaders have repeatedly said they have run out of shelter space after opening 200 facilities and that they have nowhere to put newly arriving migrants after 160,000 have come to the city since Spring 2022.NYPJ

The Post witnessed firsthand as migrants were handed court dates five years in the future in May.

Previous figures analyzing where migrants were heading overwhelmingly show the top destinations to be New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Chicago some of the most expensive metropolitan areas on the planet.

Less than 10% of migrants stay in border towns, and most head to areas where there are established migrant populations from their home countries.

Due to the lengthy nature of asylum proceedings, courts are only expected to get more overwhelmed, meaning asylum seekers are legally allowed to be in the country and in many cases allowed to work, for years before their case is even initially heard by a judge. 5 Nationally, Customs and Border Protection admitted during their financial year, which ended September 30, over 900,000 people had been allowed into the country on humanitarian parole and were eligible to apply for asylum.ALLISON DINNER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

In the first eight months of 2023 New York and California courts adjudicated over 13,200 cases each, both more than in the entire previous year. The next busiest courts are Texas, where judges adjudicated 7,000 cases, and Florida, where judges made 4,000 asylum decisions in the year to August.

The figures also show approval ratings have been increasing during the Biden administration, with California approvals rocketing from 34% of cases in 2020 to the current figure of two thirds. Once asylum is grated, an applicant can apply for citizenship.

In addition to all that, even asylum cases which are rejected can be appealed and transferred to a different court.

The culture is very different from one office to the next, Wildes stated. Clients will often move to different venues based on those generalities. 5 Due to the lengthy nature of asylum proceedings asylum seekers are legally allowed to be in the country and in many cases allowed to work, for years before their case is even initially heard by a judge.NYPJ

Wildes also noted judges can vary wildly in their rulings and even in some of the most liberal New York courts there are judges who do not approve over 80% of applications they adjudicate.

The Biden administration has come under attack for not reacting to problems on the border with even Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas referring to the broken immigration system, this week.

Meanwhile a 7,000 strong migrant caravan left from the border between Mexico and Guatemala this week, led by a US citizen, Irineo Mujica, who claims the countries of Latin America are taking advantage of Bidens soft touch.

He said: Joe Bidens administration had lost the ball, does not know what to do with immigration, adding Mexico was ganging up with other countries in the region to make sure all this immigration goes straight into the United States.

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Unite votes to suspend Angela Rayner over Birmingham bin strike

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Unite votes to suspend Angela Rayner over Birmingham bin strike

Labour’s largest union donor, Unite, has voted to suspend Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner over her role in the Birmingham bin strike row.

Members of the trade union, one of the UK’s largest, also “overwhelmingly” voted to “re-examine its relationship” with Labour over the issue.

They said Ms Rayner, who is also housing, communities and local government secretary, Birmingham Council’s leader, John Cotton, and other Labour councillors had been suspended for “bringing the union into disrepute”.

There was confusion over Ms Rayner’s membership of Unite, with her office having said she was no longer a member and resigned months ago and therefore could not be suspended.

But Unite said she was registered as a member. Parliament’s latest register of interests had her down as a member in May.

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The union said an emergency motion was put to members at its policy conference in Brighton on Friday.

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Unite is one of the Labour Party’s largest union donors, donating £414,610 in the first quarter of 2025 – the highest amount in that period by a union, company or individual.

The union condemned Birmingham’s Labour council and the government for “attacking the bin workers”.

Mountains of rubbish have been piling up in the city since January after workers first went on strike over changes to their pay, with all-out strike action starting in March. An agreement has still not been made.

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Ms Rayner and the councillors had their membership suspended for “effectively firing and rehiring the workers, who are striking over pay cuts of up to £8,000”, the union added.

‘Missing in action’

General secretary Sharon Graham told Sky News on Saturday morning: “Angela Rayner, who has the power to solve this dispute, has been missing in action, has not been involved, is refusing to come to the table.”

She had earlier said: “Unite is crystal clear, it will call out bad employers regardless of the colour of their rosette.

“Angela Rayner has had every opportunity to intervene and resolve this dispute but has instead backed a rogue council that has peddled lies and smeared its workers fighting huge pay cuts.

“The disgraceful actions of the government and a so-called Labour council, is essentially fire and rehire and makes a joke of the Employment Relations Act promises.

“People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer not workers.”

SN pics from 10/04/25 Tyseley Lane, Tyseley, Birmingham showing some rubbish piling up because of bin strikes
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Piles of rubbish built up around Birmingham because of the strike over pay

Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman said the government’s “priority is and always has been the residents of Birmingham”.

He said the decision by Unite workers to go on strike had “caused disruption” to the city.

“We’ve worked to clean up streets and remain in close contact with the council […] as we support its recovery,” he added.

A total of 800 Unite delegates voted on the motion.

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Donald Trump announces 30% tariff on imports from EU

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Donald Trump has announced he will impose a 30% tariff on imports from the European Union from 1 August.

The tariffs could make everything from French cheese and Italian leather goods to German electronics and Spanish pharmaceuticals more expensive in the US.

Mr Trump has also imposed a 30% tariff on goods from Mexico, according to a post from his Truth Social account.

Announcing the moves in separate letters on the account, the president said the US trade deficit was a national security threat.

In his letter to the EU, he wrote: “We have had years to discuss our trading relationship with The European Union, and we have concluded we must move away from these long-term, large, and persistent, trade Deficits, engendered by your tariff, and non-Tariff, policies, and trade barriers.

“Our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from reciprocal.”

In his letter to Mexico, Mr Trump said he did not think the country had done enough to stop the US from turning into a “narco-trafficking playground”.

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said today that the EU could adopt “proportionate countermeasures” if the US proceeds with imposing the 30% tariff.

Ms von der Leyen, who heads the EU’s executive arm, said in a statement that the bloc remained ready “to continue working towards an agreement by Aug 1”.

“Few economies in the world match the European Union’s level of openness and adherence to fair trading practices,” she continued.

“We will take all necessary steps to safeguard EU interests, including the adoption of proportionate countermeasures if required.”

Ms von der Leyen has also said imposing tariffs on EU exports would “disrupt essential transatlantic supply chains”.

Meanwhile, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on the X social media platform that Mr Trump’s announcement was “very concerning and not the way forward”.

He added: “The European Commission can count on our full support. As the EU we must remain united and resolute in pursuing an outcome with the United States that is mutually beneficial.”

Mexico’s economy ministry said a bilateral working group aims to reach an alternative to the 30% US tariffs before they are due to take effect.

The country was informed by the US that it would receive a letter about the tariffs, the ministry’s statement said, adding that Mexico was negotiating.

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On his so-called “liberation day” in April, Mr Trump unleashed “reciprocal tariffs” on many of America’s trade partners.

The US president said he was targeting countries with which America has a trade imbalance.

However, since then he’s backed down in a spiralling tit-for-tat tariff face-off with China, and struck a deal with the UK.

The US imposed a 20% tariff on imported goods from the EU in April but it was later paused and the bloc has since been paying a baseline tariff of 10% on goods it exports to the US.

In May, while the US and EU where holding trade negotiations, Mr Trump threated to impose a 50% tariff on the bloc as talks didn’t progress as he would have liked.

However, he later announced he was delaying the imposition of that tariff while negotiations over a trade deal took place.

As of earlier this week, the EU’s executive commission, which handles trade issues for the bloc’s 27-member nations, said its leaders were still hoping to strike a trade deal with the Trump administration.

Without one, the EU said it was prepared to retaliate with tariffs on hundreds of American products, ranging from beef and auto parts to beer and Boeing airplanes.

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Donald Trump announces 30% tariff on imports from EU

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Donald Trump announces 30% tariff on imports from EU

Donald Trump has announced he will impose a 30% tariff on imports from the European Union from 1 August.

The tariffs could make everything from French cheese and Italian leather goods to German electronics and Spanish pharmaceuticals more expensive in the US.

Mr Trump has also imposed a 30% tariff on goods from Mexico, according to a post from his Truth Social account.

Announcing the moves in separate letters on the account, the president said the US trade deficit was a national security threat.

In his letter to the EU, he wrote: “We have had years to discuss our trading relationship with The European Union, and we have concluded we must move away from these long-term, large, and persistent, trade Deficits, engendered by your tariff, and non-Tariff, policies, and trade barriers.

“Our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from reciprocal.”

In his letter to Mexico, Mr Trump said he did not think the country had done enough to stop the US from turning into a “narco-trafficking playground”.

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said today that the EU could adopt “proportionate countermeasures” if the US proceeds with imposing the 30% tariff.

Ms von der Leyen, who heads the EU’s executive arm, said in a statement that the bloc remained ready “to continue working towards an agreement by Aug 1”.

“Few economies in the world match the European Union’s level of openness and adherence to fair trading practices,” she continued.

“We will take all necessary steps to safeguard EU interests, including the adoption of proportionate countermeasures if required.”

Ms von der Leyen has also said imposing tariffs on EU exports would “disrupt essential transatlantic supply chains”.

Meanwhile, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on the X social media platform that Mr Trump’s announcement was “very concerning and not the way forward”.

He added: “The European Commission can count on our full support. As the EU we must remain united and resolute in pursuing an outcome with the United States that is mutually beneficial.”

Mexico’s economy ministry said a bilateral working group aims to reach an alternative to the 30% US tariffs before they are due to take effect.

The country was informed by the US that it would receive a letter about the tariffs, the ministry’s statement said, adding that Mexico was negotiating.

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Trump plans to hit Canada with 35% tariff
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How ‘liberation day’ unfolded

Trump’s tariff threats and delays

On his so-called “liberation day” in April, Mr Trump unleashed “reciprocal tariffs” on many of America’s trade partners.

The US president said he was targeting countries with which America has a trade imbalance.

However, since then he’s backed down in a spiralling tit-for-tat tariff face-off with China, and struck a deal with the UK.

The US imposed a 20% tariff on imported goods from the EU in April but it was later paused and the bloc has since been paying a baseline tariff of 10% on goods it exports to the US.

In May, while the US and EU where holding trade negotiations, Mr Trump threated to impose a 50% tariff on the bloc as talks didn’t progress as he would have liked.

However, he later announced he was delaying the imposition of that tariff while negotiations over a trade deal took place.

As of earlier this week, the EU’s executive commission, which handles trade issues for the bloc’s 27-member nations, said its leaders were still hoping to strike a trade deal with the Trump administration.

Without one, the EU said it was prepared to retaliate with tariffs on hundreds of American products, ranging from beef and auto parts to beer and Boeing airplanes.

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