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Jeanette Nuñez

lieutenant governor of Florida. 1 claim checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2024 to 2024. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

Jeanette Nuñez, lieutenant governor of Florida

“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.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: 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%.