Courts must defer to immigration judges’ decisions on asylum cases in their entirety. These courts decide both the facts and whether those facts meet the legal standard for persecution. It codifies what courts were already doing. Justice Jackson treated the 1996 immigration law as maintaining that earlier practice, reflecting respect for continuity.

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