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The Department of Justice has fired Judge Chloe S. Dillon, the judge in the San Francisco immigration court with the second-highest clearance rate for asylum cases, according to three sources close to the matter.

The firing comes a month after Mission Local reported that the Trump administration had fired four other San Francisco immigration judges since April, most of whom granted asylum at rates above the national average at the time of 42.3 percent.

Dillon granted asylum in 96.5 percent of cases before her in San Francisco, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse from Syracuse University , which tracked data from 2019 t

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