The number of non-Americans who claimed asylum increased 1,750 percent during former President Barack Obama’s administration, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon.

“We have seen a 1,750 percent increase in the number of fear claims being made in the expedited removal process between FY 2008 and FY 2016,” Director L. Francis Cissna told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.