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NL Times
April 30, 2018
The situation in Afghanistan is still very dangerous, and people sent back to the country run the risk of being kidnapped, tortured and killed, according to 10 aid organizations. They call on the Dutch government to stop deporting asylum seekers back to the country, RTL Nieuws reports. The aid organizationsÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
April 30, 2018
U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months. They say they want to prepare them for the worst possible outcome.
KPVI News 6
April 30, 2018
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The Latest on a caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States (all times local):. 11:15 p.m.. With people rallying on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to support a caravan of Central American asylum seekers, one of those planning to turn herself in to U.S.Ãâà...
South China Morning Post
April 30, 2018
About 50 people from a Central American migrant caravan including women, children and transgender individuals tried to seek US asylum on Sunday but were not immediately allowed to cross the Mexico border because officials said the facility was full. Wearing white armbands to distinguish themselvesÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 30, 2018
TIJUANA, Mexico — As almost 200 Central American migrants approached the U.S. border crossing here Sunday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the crossing was full before the caravan of migrants began seeking asylum. The migrants are part of a caravan that has drawn the attention, and ire,Ãâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 30, 2018
After traveling through Mexico with great fanfare for a month under the Trump administration's watchful eye, nearly 200 Central American migrants attempting to seek asylum in the United States were stopped in their tracks when border inspectors said that a crossing facility didn't have enough space toÃâà...
NBC 7 San Diego
April 29, 2018
A group of about 300 people is waiting in Tijuana to seek asylum in the U.S. After receiving legal advice, the migrants planned to turn themselves over to U.S. authorities at the San Ysidro border crossing Sunday. The migrants, many from Central America and traveling with families, reached the border townÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
April 29, 2018
MONTREAL — As Nigerian asylum seekers flood into Canada across a ditch in Upstate New York, Canadian authorities are asking the United States for help — but not with managing the influx at the border. Instead, they want U.S. immigration officials to reduce the foot traffic by screening Nigerians moreÃâà...
Chicago Daily Herald
April 29, 2018
TIJUANA, Mexico -- U.S. immigration lawyers are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers that traveled through Mexico to the border with San Diego that they face possible separation from their children and detention for many months. They say they want to prepare them for the worstÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 29, 2018
Migrant caravan reaches U.S. border to seek asylum. Sat, Apr 28. The group of around 400 people have been traveling from Central America, hoping to seek asylum in the United States. At their final stop before the border, the group attended legal clinics to prepare. Share Video; Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ E-mail; Embed.
AZCentral.com
April 29, 2018
Tijuana, Mexico — Kenia Elizabeth Avila Garcia sat in a restaurant stairwell looking dejected while the youngest of her three children bounced a rubber ball on the steps. She had just met with an American lawyer providing pro bono legal consultations in a room upstairs to the migrants from Central AmericaÃâà...
CNN
April 28, 2018
Newly released records now show that the case he handpicked, which involves a Central American woman fleeing domestic abuse from her ex-husband, comes from a judge who has been repeatedly rebuked by appellate judges for his multiple rejections of asylum claims from victims of domestic abuse.
NPR
April 26, 2018
Central American migrants are gathering near the U.S. border and say they plan to request asylum from the U.S. government on Sunday. The asylum-seekers have been traveling north through Mexico for weeks. The caravan is an annual event, but this year's gathering has received unusual attentionÃâà...
Politico
April 24, 2018
President Donald Trump threatened to bar asylum-seeking Central American migrants from entering the U.S. illegally on Monday while dangling the possibility of making stricter border enforcement a demand in NAFTA negotiations talks with Mexico. The president, who earlier this month decried reports ofÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
April 24, 2018
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that protection applied under the European Convention on Human Rights if the health of an asylum applicant with severe physical or psychological after-effects from past torture would be "significantly and irreversibly worsened" by the lack of treatment inÃâà...
ColorLines magazine
April 24, 2018
ProPublica and WNYC joined forces to create a “newsgame” that takes users through the long, arduous process that thousands of immigrants fleeing from violence or persecution experience when they apply for asylum in the United States. “The Waiting Game,” an interactive simulation released today (AprilÃâà...
Quad-Cities Online
April 24, 2018
... chance to fight for the right to stay, and especially those who think a widow who took seriously our historic promise of safe haven, should be lumped in with “illegals” are not my people. I grew up in a different America. I think I saw a glimpse of that country when I got that paper that read, “Asylum is granted.
Human Rights Watch
April 24, 2018
According to the UNHCR, 1,138 asylum seekers and migrants arrived to Bosnia between January 1 and March 3, more than the total for 2017. Most of them are from Syria, followed by Pakistan, Libya, and Afghanistan. Some are fleeing conflict and human rights abuses, while others are seeking a better life.
Express.co.uk
April 24, 2018
Jean-Michel Clement was the only member of Mr Macron's party to vote against the new law. He has since quit the pro-Macron group over the vote. The centrist lawmaker told France Info radio shortly after the vote was made public: “France's tradition of asylum has, I think, been undermined by this text,Ãâà...
HelloGiggles
April 24, 2018
Overhauling the immigration system has long been one of the top projects on the Trump administration's to-do list. But it's not just about border walls or travel bans, according to a new report from Politico. It looks like the U.S. might not let domestic abuse victims apply for asylum in the country, based onÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
April 23, 2018
A caravan of Central American migrants is on its way to Tijuana. Some 200 members of the Pueblo Sin Fronteras caravan are preparing to ask for U.S. asylum. Many are Hondurans who say they are fleeing gangs who threaten to kill and extort them. Some from the caravan began arriving in Tijuana lastÃâà...
ProPublica
April 23, 2018
Based on the real case files of five asylum seekers from five countries and interviews with the medical and legal professionals who evaluate and represent them, The Waiting Game is an experimental news game that lets you walk in the shoes of an asylum seeker, from the moment they choose to come toÃâà...
Immigration Blog (blog)
April 21, 2018
Preston's earlier immigration writing for the New York Times is the stuff of notoriety here at the Center for Immigration Studies, because they have always carried a bias in favor of aliens and against anyone or anything that smacks of enforcement or regulation or control, and indifference to our ownÃâà...
Axios
April 21, 2018
Why it matters: This has long been a point of tension between the two world powers. Beijing blames the U.S. for enticing Chinese nationals to leave by granting them asylum, but the U.S. blames China for what it perceives to be oppressive policies and for making it difficult to deport people back to China.
Newsweek
April 21, 2018
"There have already been cases of people being illegally turned away by border officials when trying to request asylum at the U.S. border," Alex Mensing, a spokesperson for Pueblo Sin Fronteras, an immigrant rights group that organized the event, told Newsweek. "Others have been processed," theÃâà...
Quartz
April 20, 2018
Europe's economic powerhouse is still a hotspot for refugees. Germany alone granted 60% of all positive asylum decisions from in the European Union (EU) in 2017, according to recent data (pdf) by Eurostat. France granted the second highest number of asylum protections, followed by Italy, Austria andÃâà...
BBC News
April 20, 2018
Austria's government surged to power late last year with a promise to stop illegal migration and crack down on refugees, and its latest move is to target their phones. Asylum seekers will be forced to hand over their mobiles so the authorities can check their identities and where they have come from, theÃâà...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
March 25, 2018
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 20,000 protested against a government plan to deport African asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan to a third country in Africa during a rally in Tel Aviv. The rally in Rabin Square was organized by NGOs and Sudanese and Eritrean groups, as well as the Stop theÃâà...
Haaretz
March 25, 2018
The rally was organized by Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers along with Israeli residents of south Tel Aviv, where many of the refugees and migrants live, and various aid organizations. “You can stand with the veteran residents of south Tel Aviv and also with the asylum seekers,” wrote the organizersÃâà...
Pitchfork
March 24, 2018
A regular presence in San Diego's coffeehouse folk scene in the late 1960s, he was living out of his car when Herb Cohen, the manager for the Mothers of Invention and Linda Ronstadt, discovered him and helped to secure a record deal with the fledgling Asylum Records. David Geffen and Elliot RobertsÃâà...
RollingStone.com
March 23, 2018
A third son made it. After being shot by gangsters and spending three days in a coma, he fled north at 17 as part of the wave of Central American children who arrived in the U.S. in 2014, escaping the violence that has ravaged the region. He was ultimately granted asylum, and now lives in Los Angeles withÃâà...
Haaretz
March 23, 2018
The asylum seeker who filed the original appeal is 29 years old. He was drafted into the Eritrean army at 17 and was only granted leave to see his family two years later. He did not return from leave, but instead hid in his village. A year later tried to flee Eritrea but was arrested and imprisoned for two years.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
March 23, 2018
They have long grown exhausted of living in detention-like conditions in the so-called hotspot for asylum seekers stranded in Samos, and the children are yearning for a way out. “I came back to the container we live in to tell them the bad news. They were waiting for me in bed, huddled together like littleÃâà...
Quartz
March 23, 2018
The number of asylum applications in Europe dropped by nearly half last year ... This figure was just over half the number recorded in 2016, when 1,206,500 migrants applied for asylum in the bloc. ... Asylum seekers from these three countries accounted for 30% of all first-time applicants in 2017. OverallÃâà...
The Texas Observer
March 22, 2018
It took more than four months, a bombardment of letters and calls and protests, an FBI investigation, a federal lawsuit and the intervention of at least 46 members of Congress — but Laura Monterrosa, a 23-year-old Salvadoran asylum-seeker who alleged sexual abuse at an immigrant detention centerÃâà...
NPR
March 12, 2018
Women and children arriving from Central America are claiming asylum because, they say, they've been the victims of gangs, or domestic violence, in their home countries. But some critics, like former immigration judge Andrew Arthur, say claiming asylum has become a "sort of catchall for truly inventiveÃâà...
San Antonio Express-News
March 9, 2018
Immigration lawyers said Ibrahim has what should be a clear-cut asylum claim, but that the conditions in detention, including a lack of access to the internet and the fact that staff at the facility didn't tell him the CD had arrived, prevented him from presenting a compelling argument for staying in the U.S. HisÃâà...
PC Gamer
March 9, 2018
Arkham Asylum regularly features in Batman stories, usually because The Joker or some other supervillain has escaped from it. Here, though, the asylum is the star, fleshed out as a setting like it never has been before. Later Arkham games took Batman to Gotham City, dramatically increasing their size andÃâà...
The Guardian
March 9, 2018
Changes to the SRSS regime were imposed late last year, when individual asylum seekers – living legally in the Australian community on bridging visas – were told they were being cut off from their support. But details of the breadth of the policy have become clearer over recent weeks, with more and moreÃâà...
Haaretz
March 9, 2018
The number of Eritrean women working as prostitutes in Israel soared last year to about 360 from about 200, according to data submitted by aid agencies to the Knesset subcommittee on human trafficking. The agencies voiced fears that the number of asylum seekers engaged in prostitution will grow in theÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 9, 2018
HOUSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action lawsuit Friday accusing the U.S. government of broadly separating immigrant families seeking asylum. The lawsuit follows action the ACLU took in the case of a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter, who the group said wasÃâà...
New Haven Register
March 8, 2018
A man fleeing persecution in The Democratic Republic of Congo learned Thursday he has been granted asylum. Toto Kisaku, who lives in Middletown, fled Congo three years ago to escape political persecution for speaking against the government through musical performances. He's been working withÃâà...
Human Rights First
March 8, 2018
Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First today condemned a decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that casts doubt on the right of asylum seekers to an evidentiary hearing before immigration judges. The organization notes that the move, announced in a summary decision this week, is part of theÃâà...
NPR
December 31, 1999
Allan Monga had never given much thought to poetry before last summer, when he arrived in Maine as an asylum-seeker from Zambia. At the time, he was almost completely alone, living at a teen shelter in Portland and nervous about speaking with anyone in his new country. "It was really hard for me,"Ãâà...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
Each year, thousands of asylum seekers are rehoused across the UK. But in some areas residents say they are not happy with the influx, or the lack of communication. "It's a fantastic area, very-close knit community. One of those areas where all the neighbours are on first name terms with each other," AjitÃâà...
