Central American countries have the lowest rate of obtaining asylum in the United States.

Mexico and Haiti are among the countries that have had the least success in the asylum application process in the United States in the last two decades, reported this Tuesday the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), of Syracuse University, in New York.

According to the TRAC report, the five nationalities with the lowest rates of obtaining asylum in immigration courts are Mexico (15%), Honduras and Haiti (18% each), Guatemala (19%) and El Salvador (twenty %).

It further indicates that together, the people of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are the largest segment of asylum seekers in recent years. Over the past two decades, 28,745 people from these three Northern Triangle countries have been granted asylum and another 2,733 people received other forms of assistance, according to the report.

However, it stands out that they represent only 12% of those who received asylum in the last two decades, much less than applicants from China, which ranks third among the most successful, with 69%, behind Nepal ( 73%) and Ethiopia (72%), the two countries with the highest rate of obtaining asylum.

Of the total 626,927 applications studied by the judges, 112,394, or almost one in five, were submitted by individuals from China.

The list of 19 countries with the highest rate of obtaining asylum also includes Cameroon and Russia, with 66% success, Albania (56%), India (56%), Somalia and Armenia (54% each) , Venezuela (49%), Cuba (39%), Colombia (36%), Indonesia (32%) and Nicaragua (29%).

For this report, TRAC examined all asylum decisions in the Immigration Court records on a case-by-case basis from fiscal year 2001 through 2021.

TRAC also notes that under the Administration of President Joe Biden, the number of asylum granted has increased, which had fallen to a minimum of 29% under the government of Republican Donald Trump, in fiscal year 2020. Under the Democratic government of Biden they increased to 37% during fiscal year 2021.

It also stands out that in the most recent quarter (July-September 2021), the success rate of asylum seekers rose to 49%, even above the 44% registered at the end of the administration of President Barack Obama.

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