This paper examines the treatment and processing of immigration court decisions for unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in the United States from 2013 to 2017. We focus on two primary questions in our research: (1) whether asylum cases involving UAC are substantially different in outcome than non-UAC cases, and (2) whether there have been significant differences in the immigration courts' asylum decisions involving unaccompanied minors before and after the Trump administration came to power. We utilize various multilevel models to test individual applicant-, immigration judge-, county-, and state-level variables on the likelihood of UAC receiving a positive outcome in immigration court. We find strong support for the second hypothesis and mixed support for the first. Overall, our findings suggest that multiple political, economic, social, and geographical factors influence immigration hearings for UAC beyond the individual strength of any one child's case.

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寻求庇护的儿童：2013年至2017年美国无人陪伴的未成年人寻求庇护的决定因素

本文研究了2013年至2017年美国无人陪伴的外国儿童（UAC）的移民法院判决的处理和处理。我们在研究中关注两个主要问题：（1）涉及UAC的庇护案件的结果是否有实质性不同（2）在特朗普政府上台前后，无人陪伴的未成年人在移民法院的庇护决定中是否存在重大差异。我们利用各种多层次模型来测试个人申请人，移民法官，县和州级别的变量，以了解UAC在移民法院中获得积极结果的可能性。我们发现对第二个假设的有力支持，而对第一个假设的支持不一。总体而言，我们的发现表明，多个政治，经济，社会，