And finally, a new study shows rulings on asylum cases face wide disparities depending on factors including the location of the court and background of the judges. The study looked at 140,000 rulings on cases involving the 15 countries that have produced the most asylum seekers. In one court in Miami, Colombians had a nearly nine in 10 chance of winning asylum from one judge while just a 5 percent chance from another. Chinese asylum seekers had a 76 percent success rate in a court in Orlando while just a 7 percent chance in Atlanta. Female immigration judges were also found to approve asylum requests at a 44 percent higher rate than male judges. Georgetown professor and study author Philip Schrag said: “It is very disturbing that these decisions can mean life or death, and they seem to a large extent to be the result of a clerk’s random assignment of a case to a particular judge.”