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    Immigrant asylum claims rise at Mexican border

    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Dec 11, 2018 3 minutes

    HOUSTON - Pressing its case for restrictions to limit asylum claims, the Trump administration reported Monday that the number of migrants filing such claims at the southern U.S. border has risen sharply this year.

    A total of 92,959 migrants filed for asylum during the fiscal year that ended in September, a 67 percent increase over the 55,584 claims in the 2017 fiscal year, according to data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

    The jump is due in large part to

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