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Nearly half ofimmigrantsfacing deportation from the US are now winning their cases before animmigrationjudge, their highest success rate in more than 20 years, says a new report.

Nearly half ofimmigrantsfacing deportation from the US are now winning their cases before animmigrationjudge, their highest success rate in more than 20 years, according to a new analysis of court data published Thursday.

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The US government has been losing more deportation cases each year since 2009, according to the Transaction Records Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which collects and studies federal prosecution records.

It does not say how many deportation casesImmigrationand Customs Enforcement, whose lawyers represent the government inimmigrationcourts, successfully appealed to the Board ofImmigrationAppeals. The government can appealimmigrationcourt rulings to the Board ofImmigrationAppeals, part of the Justice Department.

Since the start of the 2014 budget year in October,immigrationjudges ruled in favor ofimmigrantsin about half of the 42,816 cases heard, TRAC reported. In 2013 the government won about 52 percent of cases.

Immigrantsin California, New York and Oregon have been most successful recently, while judges in Georgia, Louisiana and Utah have sided more often with the government, according to TRAC.

Immigrationsupporters accuse the Obama administration of deporting too many people, but Republicans say the president is too lenient onimmigrantsliving in the country illegally.

Nearly 2 millionimmigrantshave been removed byImmigrationand Customs Enforcement under President Barack Obama.

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