“Miami’s immigration courts have the “largest backlog of any court in this country with 10% of the overall immigration cases,” and “more than 90%” of people lose their asylum claims.”
Jeanette Nuñez
lieutenant governor of Florida. Claim dated 15 Mar 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
Miami’s immigration court has a 290,000-case backlog, the highest in the US. It denied asylum claims in about 73% of cases heard since 2000. So far in fiscal year 2023-24, the court had an average rejection rate of 67%.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jeanette Nuñez (lieutenant governor of Florida) made this claim around 15 March 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 March 2024, 6 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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