Refugee roulette : disparities in asylum adjudication and proposals for reform.

In this study, the authors learned that life-or-death asylum decisions in the United States are too frequently influenced by random factors relating to the decision makers. The system, in its current state, is like a game of chance. This book analyzes decisions at all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: the Department of Homeland Security, the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the United States Courts of Appeals.