Asylum law is federally defined. However, if you look at the asylum requests per judge [1] you can see 2 different judges, 1. Hear 354 cases and approve 3.7% a

Asylum law is federally defined. However, if you look at the asylum requests per judge [1] you can see 2 different judges, 1. Hear 354 cases and approve 3.7% and 2. Hear 770 cases and approve 97.4% in my opinion clearly shows judges have a HUGE amount of discretion in how to apply the law and makes it easy to see how corruption could sneak into the system without being quickly identified and rooted out. There is a de facto qualified immunity for judges. [1] https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/judge2019/denialrates.html https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/judge2019/denialrat...