Deficiencies, barriers, and flaws in Mexico's asylum system would prevent asylum-seekers from receiving a full and fair asylum proceeding.
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Asylum is not -- WATTERS: It&aposs not all about asylum.
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Last year 276 asylum-seekers were given church asylum in Bavaria.
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Often, asylum seekers present themselves to border authorities and request asylum.
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Stephan Reichel works on coordinating church asylum for rejected asylum applicants.
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They sought asylum just like the people who are seeking asylum now.
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Historically, asylum seekers from Guatemala have low odds of gaining US asylum.
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Moreover, fast-tracking asylum applications will have dire consequences for asylum applicants.
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The Hungarian Immigration and Asylum Office granted asylum to Gruevski in 2018.
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And his asylum officers participated in Trump's efforts to crack down on asylum-seekers crossing the US/Mexico border, from the short-lived "asylum ban" to the ongoing policy of returning thousands of asylum seekers to Mexico — a policy under which, asylum officers told Vox, officers and their supervisors have been overruled to force asylum-seekers back to Mexico even when they might be in danger there.
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The 1996 changes to the INA imposed a waiting period for asylum seekers to receive work authorization, required the commencement of removal proceedings for asylum seekers who were not granted asylum by an asylum officer, and imposed a lifetime bar on receiving any immigration benefits for those who filed frivolous asylum applications.
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Asylum: The bill would make it harder for asylum claims to be approved, requiring officials to determine that the claims of the asylum seeker are true.
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There are two paths to asylum There are two ways to request asylum.
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Over 10,000 asylum seekers are currently waiting to request asylum in Tijuana alone.
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" For instance, he wrote, "two-thirds of the asylum seekers eventually receive asylum.
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The applicant would get that benefit from the asylum officer only if granted asylum.
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Asylum seekers would hear via word of mouth that there is an asylum list.
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Greece is proposing to streamline a lengthy asylum process and deport rejected asylum seekers.
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I run Asylum Access Mexico, the largest provider of asylum legal aid in Mexico.
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Asylum seekers are generally allowed under US law to claim asylum on US soil.
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Right now, our asylum system fails to assist asylum seekers who legitimately need it.
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So Asylum Access, an advocacy group, hooked up Garcia with two Honduran asylum seekers.
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The backlog at the asylum offices, for affirmative asylum seekers, includes around 22019,000 individuals.
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An asylum system bogged down by those who will not likely qualify for asylum jeopardizes the fate of legitimate asylum seekers in need of direct and swift protection.
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Asylum seekers can either apply for asylum affirmatively with the asylum office, or raise their fear of return to their home country as a defense to removal proceedings.
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Refugees and asylum-seekers should ordinarily be processed in the country where they seek asylum.
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But will Scream Queens-in-an-asylum read too close to his series AHS: Asylum?
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Asylum interviews are conducted at Asylum Offices, sub-offices, or at a USCIS field office.
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In Germany, LGBT asylum seekers have complained about intimidating comments made during their asylum interviews.
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The asylum ban, which would have excluded most asylum seekers, was blocked by the courts.
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Every month, asylum seekers file more applications than the asylum offices have capacity to interview.
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"To thrust blame for the influx and backlog of Asylum seekers on our hard working Asylum Officers who proudly serve their country in adjudicating asylum claims is despicable," Spooner said.
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The ministry receives assistance registering and processing asylum cases from UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), EASO (European Asylum Support Office), the Greek Asylum Service (GAS), and private contractors.
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"Importantly, under the zero-tolerance policy, even asylum-seekers are being criminally prosecuted for the simple act of seeking asylum, and separated from their asylum-seeking children," the petition reads.
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The two pilot programs — the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process and Prompt Asylum Screening Review — are the Trump administration's efforts to quickly screen and potentially remove asylum-seekers at the border.
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Tigar on Monday reimposed a nationwide ban on implementing the asylum rule, which would make most asylum-seekers who pass through another country before reaching the U.S. ineligible for asylum.
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Asylum Seekers: Trump wants to make it easier to deport people seeking asylum, by tightening the rules that govern who can stay in the U.S. and pursue an asylum case.
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"They deserve just as every other asylum-seeker to have their asylum claim heard and evaluated."
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If you want asylum you go to a port of entry and you ask for asylum.
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It is her choice to decline asylum under Mexican law and instead seek asylum in America.
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Secondly, "Asylum, Apprenticeship, Job" provides information on the asylum procedure and also offers information about studying.
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Forcing judges to speed up asylum cases will simply ensure that more asylum-seekers are unrepresented.
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Earlier this month, Sessions reinterpreted asylum law to make asylum substantially more difficult to qualify for.
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"In the asylum process, the asylum seeker must make his reason for flight credible," he said.
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Asylum seekers generally don't qualify for social services, including Medicaid, before they have been granted asylum.
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The memorandum calls for McAleenan and Barr to propose regulations that would place asylum-seekers into asylum-only proceedings, force adjudications of asylum applications within 180 days in immigration court, institute a yet-to-be-determined fee for those applying for asylum, and bar work permits for those who crossed the border without authorization and are in the asylum application process.
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Based on the completed application and a nonadversarial office interview, asylum officers can grant or deny asylum, but when asylum is denied, they have no authority to issue a removal order.
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Under an "Asylum Cooperation Agreement" signed in September, adults and families seeking asylum at our southern border can be sent to Honduras, denying them the opportunity to apply for asylum here.
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An asylum officer needs to conduct a screening interview for any asylum seeker before she can be released or deported; having to screen every asylum seeker as soon as she arrives at the port of entry requires a lot more asylum officers than are currently available.
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He asked for proposals to charge a fee for asylum applications, stop issuing work permits to asylum seekers until their applications have been approved, shunt asylum seekers into limited court proceedings to judge their applications, and require all asylum cases to be wrapped up in 180 days.
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But it can't control how individual asylum officers evaluate the screening interviews of individual asylum-seekers — or what individual border and detention officers say to asylum-seekers about what their rights are.
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The decision to deport asylum seekers in groups has added to the tension and uncertainty of those whose asylum claims have been refused and those who have not yet had asylum interviews.
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Human Rights First has documented border agents' unlawful rejection of asylum seekers and the failure of U.S. immigration officers to release from detention asylum seekers who meet the relevant asylum parole standards.
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The added capacity on asylum claims brings the Trump administration closer to its goal of moving through asylum cases as quickly as possible so that unsuccessful asylum-seekers can be swiftly deported.
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If the asylum seeker passes her CFI, she can apply for asylum and is eligible for release.
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Roughly 80% of asylum seekers pass that screening, though a smaller share of them eventually achieve asylum.
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Asylum seekers, on the other hand, undergo long, arduous, often dangerous journeys to the country of asylum.
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Her father and brother received asylum years ago, but for some reason, her asylum request was denied.
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Some migrants in the caravan had been given forms to seek asylum with Mexico's asylum agency, COMAR.
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Although Russia eventually granted him asylum, it is not the case that he "fled to asylum" there.
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The programs, Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP) and Prompt Asylum Screening Review (PACR), were launched last fall.
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Although Russia eventually granted him asylum, it was not the case that he "fled to asylum" there.
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The next month, a Cameroonian asylum seeker was stabbed and two Honduran asylum-seeking teenagers were murdered.
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The majority of new arrivals have applied for asylum in the EU. To receive asylum in Europe, migrants in Greece must go through a rigorous process through EASO, the European Asylum Support Office.
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The "Remain in Mexico" program and the asylum agreement with Guatemala, for example, both allow asylum seekers to be whisked from the border to either wait for a hearing or seek asylum elsewhere.
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The Trump administration now wants to expand asylum-only proceedings for any immigrant who passes a screening interview and is eligible for asylum — and to put immigrants who pass their screening interviews but aren't eligible for asylum into "withholding only" asylum proceedings, where they could be given withholding of removal (a quasi-asylum status that doesn't give access to benefits or a work permit).
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He has complained that Congress refuses to make changes to asylum laws that could limit frivolous asylum claims.
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The asylum seeker is obliged to inform on any means the asylum seeker brings with him or her.
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He's one of more than 600,000 asylum-seekers waiting for an asylum decision in the U.S., per UNHCR.
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Of course, asylum claims and initial screenings are both partly up to the discretion of individual asylum officers.
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The asylum provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act just states that eligible aliens "may" be granted asylum.
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The bill seeks to combat asylum fraud by raising the threshold at which an individual can get asylum.
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So they all don&apost want to seek asylum, some of them reunited don&apost even want asylum.
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He said that the country's Federal Immigration and Asylum agency had made decisions on about 120,0003 asylum requests.
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A former asylum officer says "remain in Mexico" and other policies undermining asylum aren't just racist, they're illegal.
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It's the asylum officer's job to translate the facts of the case into the framework of asylum law.
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Applying for asylum would also be easier under Castro's plan, which would increase legal access for asylum seekers.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Asylum-seekers attacked the premises of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) on the island of Lesbos on Monday, protesting against delays in dealing with asylum claims, Greek and EU authorities said.
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Previously asylum officers were directed to pass an applicant if there was a "significant possibility" of qualifying for asylum, but that wording has now been removed from the USCIS "lesson plan" for asylum officers.
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Trump's advisers have become exasperated with the asylum process, pointing to government data showing that 90 percent of people seeking asylum pass their credible-fear interview, but fewer than 10 percent eventually receive asylum.
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Sessions suggests that if an asylum seeker passed through another country and didn't seek asylum there, or came into the US illegally, those could be factors that a judge could use to reject asylum.
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Along with the administration's recent effort to send asylum seekers back over the border , Trump has tried to deny asylum to anyone crossing the border illegally and restrict who can claim asylum, and Attorney General William Barr recently tried to keep thousands of asylum seekers detained while their cases play out.
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Trump also proposed policies to restrict migrants' paths to asylum, such as disallowing immigrants in the country illegally from seeking asylum and forcing migrants seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while their requests are processed.
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This interview must be conducted by an asylum officer, who is specially trained in asylum laws and interviewing practices for survivors of trauma and torture; interviewers who lack this training could undercut access to asylum.
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They could release her if they trust she'll show up to her asylum interview or court date (this makes sense for asylum seekers, who have every reason to do what's required to actually get asylum).
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Practically, for now, that means that asylum seekers may continue to seek protection without these restrictions in California and Arizona, but asylum seekers in Texas and New Mexico will be subject to the asylum rule.
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The specific exclusion of Syrian refugees from the asylum process seems particularly egregious when compared with Greece's system, which streamlines the asylum-seeking process for Syrian nationals, acknowledging the obvious validity of their asylum claim.
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Michele, like the others on the asylum list, had no idea when he would be allowed to request asylum.
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Another factor likely to affect asylum claims is changes in the standards by which an asylum claim is judged.
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It's not rare for Russian dissidents to apply for asylum in the Baltic countries, but Petrov's asylum case stalled.
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Asylum seekers who are attacked, kidnapped, or killed in Mexico will be wholly unable to pursue their asylum applications.
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Since there are a lot more variables with that kind of asylum, we'll focus on the affirmative asylum process.
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Assange claimed asylum in the embassy, where he lived for almost seven years before Ecuador revoked his asylum claim.
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Asylum seekers can avoid prosecution for an illegal entry by making their asylum requests at a port of entry.
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In 2018, about 46,800 Salvadorans sought asylum worldwide, ranking the country sixth in the world for new asylum seekers.
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And some of the crew members of the ship chartered to stop asylum seekers themselves sought asylum in Cyprus.
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However, only 28500 of them filed an asylum application, and immigration judges only granted asylum to 6900 of them.
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In fact, the overall asylum grant rate for all asylum applications adjudicated by the immigration courts is very low.
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Asylum seekers are supposed to be screened by an asylum officer if they express fear of returning to Mexico.
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Which means, for asylum seekers like Mohamed, different countries bring with them significantly different chances of being granted asylum.
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U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar on Monday reinstated a nationwide ban on the asylum rule, which would make most asylum-seekers who pass through another country before reaching the U.S. ineligible for asylum, with exceptions for victims of trafficking and migrants who have been denied asylum in the countries they traveled through.
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"Humanitarian" asylum was given to more than 20,000 people last year, or 25 percent of those who sought asylum, against the 16 percent of asylum seekers awarded one of the other two forms of international protection.
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The US can't force asylum-seekers who traveled through Mexico to apply for asylum there, but the Trump administration claims that not applying for asylum in Mexico proves that Central Americans aren't real victims of persecution.
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Currently, it's free to apply for asylum — something the Trump administration believes encourages migrants to file frivolous asylum applications (though there's little evidence of immigrants deliberately applying for asylum even though they know they don't qualify).
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Under the "safe third country" scheme, asylum-seekers must apply for asylum in the first safe country they arrive in.
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Despite this capricious and punitive asylum system, paroled asylum-seeking family members do mostly come back to court for hearings.
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However, the agreement does not include requiring asylum seekers to first apply for asylum in the US while in Mexico.
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Ryan said the asylum process has been stacked against applicants, with protocols and procedures changing to make asylum less attainable.
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Roberto Sanchez, a Venezuelan who wants to ask for asylum himself, enters the names of asylum-seekers in a notebook.
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They're seeking asylum, even if their circumstances may not fit neatly into the definition of "persecution" in US asylum law.
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Instead, the asylum officer would consider, as part of the interview, whether the asylum seeker triggered any of the bars.
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Under the UNHCR refugee accord, asylum seekers are guaranteed the right to seek asylum in a country of their choice.
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They planned to seek asylum in the United States but didn't expect that seeking asylum would be such an ordeal.
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The traditional interpretation of asylum law was that any foreign national in U.S. territory was eligible to apply for asylum.
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If they came seeking asylum, when we reunite them, why do they have to think about whether they want asylum?
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Asylum officers are currently doing nearly 10,000 screening interviews a month, and nearly 0003 percent of those asylum seekers pass.
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They include sending asylum-seekers to Guatemala to seek protection there and fast-tracking the deportation of Mexican asylum seekers.
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Further, Knox said, asylum seekers aren't thinking about the finer points of U.S. asylum law when they are fleeing persecution.
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Second, we need to reform our asylum laws to end the systemic abuse of our asylum system and stop fraud.
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The asylum provisions provide that aliens physically present in the United States may apply for asylum, but there are exceptions.
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Of the 1,857 asylum applications submitted since 2013, only 83 were granted asylum or given another form of protected status.
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The UN ruling is not binding but could open the door for future climate change asylum seekers, asylum advocates said.
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After the Scandinavian country received around 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015, the current center-left coalition radically tightened asylum laws.
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But Mexico has neither the infrastructure to absorb tens of thousands of asylum seekers nor a legally robust asylum process.
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The government is apparently concerned that non-genuine asylum seekers will file for asylum solely to obtain a work permit.
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Between January and September last year, 343,055 asylum seekers applied for asylum with Europe, 21,340 of whom came from Eritrea.
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Reality check: The Trump administration has taken numerous steps to curtail asylum seekers, including attempting to block migrants who illegally cross the border from asylum and forcing some asylum seekers to await a case decision in Mexico.
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This provision would make it much easier for judges to insert information claiming that an asylum-seeker's home country isn't as dangerous for him as he claims — since asylum cases often hinge on whether there's anywhere safe in the home country the asylum-seeker could live instead of the US. Immigrants could be barred from asylum based on traffic offenses... In addition to the new prohibitions on asylum for immigration-specific crimes, the regulation would ban any applicant who'd been convicted of two or three misdemeanors (depending on what they were) from getting asylum.
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READ: US-Guatemala agreement on asylum claims In recent months, the administration has expanded its policy of requiring some asylum seekers to await their immigration hearings in Mexico, limited the number of asylum seekers who can enter a port of entry for processing each day, and introduced a new asylum rule that dramatically limits the ability of Central American migrants to claim asylum if they enter the US by land through Mexico.
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum division has been asked to begin training Border Patrol agents to being conducting "credible fear" interviews — the first screening asylum seekers must pass before applying for asylum, the L.A. Times reports.
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That can pose an obstacle for agents trying to tell asylum seekers to come back later — at least when the asylum seeker is accompanied by a lawyer who insists that they have a right to seek asylum now.
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The conditions of the facilities housing adult asylum seekers also are concerning, with jail-like settings possibly triggering memories of past mistreatment, increasing the risk of re-traumatization or causing asylum seekers prematurely to terminate their asylum claims.
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"This is absolutely wrong because once an asylum-seeking parent shows the birth certificate and valid ID, upon the asylum seeker's release the child should be released with the asylum seeker, or within 24 hours," the complaint states.
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Lawyers representing asylum seekers report that very few of their clients are passing the very first step in the asylum process, the initial screening interviews that would allow them to stay in the US to apply for asylum.
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"To obtain asylum through the affirmative asylum process you must be physically present in the United States," the USCIS website reads.
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In practical terms, asylum officers can lead children in their questions about an asylum claim, while immigration judges generally do not.
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That means that asylum seekers from any country but Mexico are ineligible for asylum if they show up at the border.
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Administration officials have described the new asylum policy as a necessary measure due to an overwhelming number of fraudulent asylum claims.
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"Asylum law explicitly permits applications regardless of the manner of entry," an asylum officer with knowledge of the situation told BuzzFeed.
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Muslim asylum seekers were 11 percentage points less likely to be accepted than Christian asylum seekers who had similar profiles otherwise.
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Asylum is granted to people who are either already in the country or are seeking entry and asylum at a border.
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This administration's policies have prevented vulnerable asylum seekers from presenting themselves at the border and having their asylum claims expeditiously processed.
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Ms. Rivas was granted asylum before Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, signaled that he opposes giving asylum to domestic violence victims.
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Taiwan had previously offered asylum but ceased doing so after several hijackings of planes by Chinese asylum seekers in the 1990s.
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Rights groups celebrated the decision to grant Apata asylum but said more needed to be done to protect LGBT asylum seekers.
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"Asylum law explicitly permits applications regardless of the manner of entry," said one asylum officer when informed of the upcoming proposal.
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The odds were not good: Nearly two-thirds of asylum applicants in Italy are refused asylum or lower levels of protection.
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The government posted regulations on Monday that clear the way for asylum officers to begin screening asylum-seekers under the plan.
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It stipulates that people seeking asylum in the United States must wait inside Mexico while their asylum case is being decided.
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Earlier this week, the Trump administration said it will start deporting some Mexican asylum seekers to Guatemala to claim asylum there.
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Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister of famed comedian Sarah Silverman, launched an initiative called Asylum Israel to hide asylum seekers against deportation.
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While the Northern Triangle countries lack anything resembling a legitimate asylum system, Mexico does have established procedures for processing asylum seekers.
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Some asylum seekers who had just arrived in Tijuana were surprised to hear on Tuesday about the new American asylum policy.
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Before an immigrant seeking asylum even goes before an immigration judge, he or she has an interview with an asylum officer.
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The asylum rule from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security would -- with limited exceptions -- prohibit migrants who have resided or "transited en route" in a third country from seeking asylum in the US, therefore barring migrants traveling through Mexico from being able to claim asylum and as a result, drastically limit who's eligible for asylum.
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It tried several things over the course of 2018: taking in fewer asylum seekers at ports of entry, barring migrants who enter illegally from even applying for asylum, reducing asylum eligibility for victims of gang and domestic violence, making it much harder for asylum seekers to get released from detention, and separating families to keep parents in custody.
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Most recently, the increase in detention has been due to an uptick in incarcerating asylum seekers: In fiscal year 2010, 15,683 asylum seekers (20143 percent of all asylum seekers in court proceedings) were detained, which jumped to 44,228 (77 percent of asylum seekers in court proceedings) in fiscal year 2014, according to the Human Rights First report.
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The Spanish Asylum and Refugee Office said most of the asylum applications from Central Americans were based on the threat of gang violence — an entrenched problem in many countries in the region, and one often cited by asylum seekers.
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When asylum seekers arrive on US soil and make a claim for asylum, they are likely destitute, having fled for their lives.
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For people with a legitimate asylum claim who would ultimately pass their asylum process, that could mean returning to violence or persecution.
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He suggested to asylum officers that they only determine an individual has credible fear if they are likely to be granted asylum.
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They were waiting for asylum The haunting image offers a glimpse into the suffering asylum seekers face on the US-Mexico border.
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But slow and lengthy asylum procedures mean thousands of asylum-seekers are holed up in crowded facilities on a few Greek islands.
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An asylum-seeker rests while he waits in Tijuana for his turn to present himself to US border authorities to request asylum.
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According to the European Asylum Support Office, only asylum-seekers from Burundi, Eritrea, the Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Syria and Yemen are eligible.
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"We owe it to them under asylum laws," she said, "to at least give them that one shot to apply for asylum."
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A sharp rise in asylum applications since the EU-Turkey deal has burdened Greece's asylum system, already criticized as inadequate and slow.
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Knowles asked for more details on the agreements and what it would entail not just for asylum officers but those seeking asylum.
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"Right now, half of asylum applicants wait 10 days or more before having their case heard by an asylum officer," she said.
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Asylum State Secretary Theo Francken tweeted early Sunday that "it is possible to ask for asylum as an EU subject" in Belgium.
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Juana Ortega, 38, came to the United States in 1993 from Guatemala seeking asylum, but her attempts to gain asylum ultimately failed.
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More than 14,700 Venezuelans sought asylum in the 2016 fiscal year, up 160% compared to 2015, when 5,605 Venezuelans applied for asylum.
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More than 176,000 asylum seekers now live in Italian shelters, and there have been a record number of asylum requests this year.
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More than 14,700 Venezuelans sought asylum in the 2016 fiscal year, up 160% compared with 2015 when 5,605 Venezuelans applied for asylum.
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About 5,000 asylum seekers arrived in Norway in 2015 via Russia, out of the total 31,000 asylum seekers that came last year.
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"From an asylum for the protection of ideas it has unfortunately become an asylum for lawlessness," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.
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It allows the relocation of refugees from countries whose asylum seekers succeed in obtaining asylum at least 75 percent of the time.
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These alternatives to asylum will protect aliens from persecution or torture, but they are not comparable to asylum in any other way.
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The administration, wrestling with a backlog of immigration and asylum applications, seeks to deter asylum-seekers from entering the country (NBC News).
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Trump on Monday ordered new restrictions on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, including implementing application fees to file for asylum.
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Treatment of asylum seekers Merkely also addressed the issue of those legally seeking asylum being separated from their families at the border.
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When immigrants express a fear of persecution in their home country, they are given an initial asylum interview by an asylum officer.
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As a result, the judge invalidated a set of US asylum policies for the asylum seekers who are part of the case.
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That means people who asked for asylum when they were apprehended at the border, but were prosecuted first, would get denied asylum.
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Over the last ten years, there has been a 2314 percent increase in asylum claims, resulting in asylum backlog of 314,000 cases.
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Asylum seekers in Greek camps can only book an interview with the Greek Asylum Office through Skype, a web-based phone service.
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The government has vowed to streamline what it sees as a lengthy asylum process and facilitate the deportation of rejected asylum seekers.
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David is among the estimated 42,000 asylum seekers who've been returned to Mexico in recent months under President Trump's new asylum policies.
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Trump has denounced the nation's immigration system and grown frustrated with the uptick in asylum claims and what he dubs asylum loopholes.
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Rahmani has been living in Tampa since the US granted her asylum in 2018, while her sister Afsoon is still seeking asylum.
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The controversial asylum decision is one of several policies rolled out by the administration to curtail asylum claims in the United States.
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Fifth, Sessions suggests that because some individuals who pass credible fear interviews fail to apply for asylum, they are fraudulently seeking asylum.
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Alternatively, asylum seekers could be turned away and instructed to apply for asylum in Mexico first under the "Remain in Mexico" policy.
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That means that asylum seekers from any country but Mexico are ineligible for asylum if they show up at the southern border.
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That means that asylum seekers from any country but Mexico are ineligible for asylum if they show up at the southern border.
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The deal allows U.S. immigration officials to make migrants requesting asylum at the U.S.-Mexican border apply for asylum in Guatemala first.
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"We refer all inquiries about asylum and asylum procedures to the DHS," Bonnardeaux added, referring to the US Department of Homeland Security.
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Right now, the main battleground in the Trump administration's ongoing war on asylum is in the interview rooms of the asylum corps.
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One asylum officer told Vox that a CBP agent said they were "instructed not to ask" about fear of return to Mexico; another CBP agent told another asylum officer, "We don't want to spoon-feed them" any supposed asylum magic words.
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The White House might try to sway asylum officers — one idea is to force them to compare asylum seekers' testimony to State Department country reports, for example — but it can't force them to flunk a certain number of asylum applicants.
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"Our asylum system is overwhelmed with too many meritless asylum claims from aliens who place a tremendous burden on our resources, preventing us from being able to expeditiously grant asylum to those who truly deserve it," said Whitaker and Nielsen.
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What happens under current policy: Many asylum seekers are Central Americans who come through Mexico to seek asylum in the US. The US is not allowed to simply turn them back and force them to seek asylum in Mexico instead.
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I therefore must take immediate action to protect the national interest, and to maintain the effectiveness of the asylum system for legitimate asylum seekers who demonstrate that they have fled persecution and warrant the many special benefits associated with asylum.
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The deal, which aims to recognize and build El Salvador's asylum system, could allow the US to send some asylum seekers back to El Salvador if they didn't first claim asylum when passing through the country, an administration official said.
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The policy is one of many rolled out by the administration to curb the flow of asylum seekers to the southern border, including proposals to add a charge to asylum applications and deny work permits to some migrants seeking asylum.
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Back in the 1990s, the last time the asylum system had built up a substantial backlog of asylum cases, Congress amended the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to decrease any perceived incentives to file for asylum simply to receive work authorization.
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People can also stand up for human rights in 240 by condemning the separation of families, the detention of asylum seekers, particularly children, asylum agreements with other countries that force people to seek safety in countries where they will not be safe, asylum bans that limit people's ability to even ask for asylum, and policies that force people to wait in dangerous conditions in other countries as they fight for their asylum cases in this one.
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MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS ACCORD DOES NOT FORESEE RETURN OF GUATEMALAN ASYLUM SEEKERS TO MEXICO, AND HONDURAN AND SALVADORAN ASYLUM SEEKERS TO GUATEMALA
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The Tsarnaev family got political asylum claiming credible fear, "We can&apost go home", they went home as soon as they got asylum.
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Under federal regulation, an asylum seeker can apply for a work permit five months (150 days) after sending in her full asylum application.
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An asylum seeker holds his sleeping son as caravan members prepare to turn themselves in to US border officials and formally request asylum.
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Austria announced a cap on asylum claims of 37,500 last year after taking in 90,000 asylum seekers during Europe's migration crisis in 2015.
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"The purpose of this memorandum is to strengthen asylum procedures to safeguard our system against rampant abuse of our asylum process," it reads.
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Seehofer wants to allow German border authorities to immediately reject asylum seekers who have already been granted asylum in another European Union country.
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Not recognizing food insecurity as grounds for asylum has done harm especially to women; denying asylum to this population reproduces gender-based violence.
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But if the illegal adults request asylum, it's still unclear what will happen, since asylum cases take longer than 20 days to resolve.
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Allowing widespread fraud and exploitation of our asylum process, however, serves neither the new asylum arrivals nor the American citizens who welcome them.
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In so doing, he's prejudging cases and encouraging adjudicators to deny asylum in these cases even though they may meet asylum legal standards.
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January 12, 2017: Hungary reinstates "mandatory immigration detention," restricting asylum seekers to detention centers and camps until their asylum applications can be processed.
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A few weeks later, Irene had her initial interview with an asylum officer, the first hurdle applicants must clear in the asylum process.
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She has been granted asylum in Canada with her son, and continues to work for human rights, while her husband also seeks asylum.
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The rules required asylum-seekers to apply for asylum in any countries they passed through to reach the U.S. View the discussion thread.
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What is the best way to process and house asylum seekers waiting for final asylum decisions after coming in to the United States?
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" Four in 10 immigration courts have become "asylum-free zones" where "the rule of law has ceased, and asylum law is functionally suspended.
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"Delays in the timely processing of asylum applications are detrimental to legitimate asylum seekers," said Francis Cissna, the USCIS director, in a statement.
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As the U.S. and Europe systematically build barriers to seeking asylum, a broader question is emerging: Is the right to seek asylum disappearing?
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Though the asylum statute does contain some limited exceptions, no explicit provision provides for the sweeping asylum restrictions implemented by the Trump administration.
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"You mentioned that asylum is actually only found to be appropriate in about 10 percent of the people who claim asylum," Gohmert said.
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The agreement forces all migrants coming from El Salvador and Honduras, seeking asylum in the U.S., to apply for asylum in Guatemala first.
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If an asylum seeker fails a credible fear interview with an asylum officer, he or she can still appeal to an immigration judge.
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"By making the majority of arriving asylum seekers ineligible for employment authorization, charging migrants to apply for asylum, and taking away other forms of relief, the administration is trying to deter future asylum-seekers from arriving at the US border, limit how many can apply for asylum, and limit how many ultimately get to stay in the United States," she said.
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Despite refugee and human rights law prohibitions on rejecting and punishing people for seeking protection, the United States is turning asylum seekers away at its border, ripping children from the arms of asylum-seeking parents, criminally prosecuting asylum seekers for "illegal entry," and holding asylum seekers in immigration jails for long periods even if they meet the government's own release standards.
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Under President Donald Trump's asylum ban, which was in effect from November 10 until Monday, presenting at a port of entry was the only way for anyone coming from Mexico — including children — to actually be eligible for asylum in the US. But these new allegations mean that the asylum ban effectively prevented unaccompanied children from getting asylum in the US at all.
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US officials have limited the number of people allowed to request asylum daily to about 100, officials say, saying the US doesn't have enough detention space or asylum officers to process the huge numbers of would-be asylum-seekers arriving at the border.
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It's labeled "Interim Guidance" for asylum officers — the people in charge of conducting interviews for asylum and "credible fear" screening interviews for migrants at the border that determine whether they'll be allowed to stay in the US and pursue an asylum claim.
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A study of asylum applications before the Asylum Office by researchers at Georgetown University supports this conclusion, finding that while legal counsel is the most significant factor in asylum applications generally, it has an even greater impact in cases involving younger applicants.
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A new rule, upheld by the Supreme Court in September, says that if asylum seekers cross through another country (like Mexico) before reaching the U.S., they must prove they've been denied asylum in those countries before they can apply for asylum here.
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New guidance directs USCIS asylum adjudication officers to weigh a migrant's illegal entry into the U.S. against legitimate claims of asylum and instructs officers to turn away asylum seekers citing gangs or domestic violence as a reason for entry at the border.
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Many of the administration's asylum practices are being challenged in the courts for depriving these asylum-seekers access to the system, including turning them away at the border, threatening them with family separation if they pursued asylum, and detaining them in Mexico.
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Border agents are trained to view statements of "credible fear" as the potential first step in an asylum petition, and because asylum claims override the ban on reentry, Deniz-Sahagun was taken into custody, though he had never intended to petition for asylum.
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It would instruct immigration judges to consider how the asylum-seeker got into the US, and treat it as a significant factor in whether or not to grant asylum (since asylum-seekers have to show they deserve "favorable discretion" from the judge).
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Under current law, if an asylum-seeker fails her initial "credible fear" interview with an asylum officer, she can appeal for a judge to review her claim with fresh eyes — ignoring the fact that the asylum officer hadn't found it a credible claim.
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Angela Merkel is clamping down on asylum seekers as election nears Angela Merkel is clamping down on asylum seekers as election nears German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to introduce new measures aimed at speeding up the deportation of failed asylum seekers.
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Honduras also produces high numbers of people seeking asylum: In 2017, the most recent year for which asylum data is available, the US granted asylum to 2,048 migrants from Honduras, compared to 1,048 from Mexico, 3,471 from El Salvador and 2,954 from Guatemala.
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The pilot program, titled Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP), targets Mexicans seeking asylum in the US who present themselves at the border in the El Paso, Texas, area by placing them in Border Patrol custody and processing their asylum screenings within 10 days.
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These asylum-seekers were instead pushed into the Humanitarian Asylum Review Process (HARP), which slashes the time Mexicans seeking asylum in the United States have to prepare their immigration cases and aims to speed up a decision while they're in government custody.
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Mexican asylum seekers are detained in CBP holding facilities and given no more than 48 hours to prepare for an interview in which an asylum officer determines whether they can proceed in pursuing their asylum claims, Hamed Aleaziz of BuzzFeed News reported.
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Gaby Zavala, founder of the Asylum Seeker Network of Support, which launches programs to help asylum-seekers at the US-Mexico border, said the drownings, extortions, and violence asylum-seekers endure is a direct result of the Trump administration's "remain in Mexico" policy.
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A separate Trump administration rule would also prevent migrants from being granted asylum if they passed through any country other than their own before arriving in the US, effectively meaning asylum seekers from any country but Mexico will now be ineligible for asylum.
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A separate Trump administration rule also prevents migrants from being granted asylum if they passed through any country other than their own before arriving in the US, effectively meaning asylum seekers from any country but Mexico will now be ineligible for asylum.
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Are they separated if they claim asylum, say "I want to claim asylum", what happens to the mother and the children at that point?
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This week, the interior minister froze asylum decisions in a branch of the refugee department amid allegations it improperly granted hundreds of asylum requests.
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It would, therefore, bar migrants transiting through Mexico from being able to claim asylum and as a result, drastically limit who's eligible for asylum.
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The purpose of this memorandum is to strengthen asylum procedures to safeguard our system against rampant abuse of our asylum process. Sec. 2. Policy.
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The first made it virtually automatic that affirmative asylum claimants whose claims were rejected by the asylum officer would be placed into removal proceedings.
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The claim that asylum-seekers are doing anything illegal by entering this country — however they do so — and applying for asylum is simply wrong.
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"We are already asylum seekers, that's lower than being a citizen," says Inna, a 25-year-old who received asylum in France in 2013.
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Separately, other members of the caravan asked for asylum before and after those five days, putting the total number of asylum-seekers at 401.
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The Supreme Court also recently weighed in on a separate asylum policy that dramatically limits the ability of Central American migrants to claim asylum.
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To get asylum, asylum seekers have to establish they have a "credible" fear they will be persecuted if they return to their home countries.
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After receiving 173,000 requests for asylum in 2015, it introduced a cap on the number of asylum seekers it would accept in January 2016.
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Many have called his call for a fast asylum process unrealistic — and say it could result in more people being deported than granted asylum.
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Many of them do not appear to be applying asylum standards properly, which is not surprising in view of the complexity of asylum law.
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Qunun, who had initially intended to seek asylum in Australia, chose Canada instead because Australia took too long assessing whether to grant her asylum.
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It's not illegal to enter the US at a port of entry and ask for asylum; international law requires the US consider asylum claims.
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Late on Thursday, the Greek parliament approved legislation amending the asylum process, a bill which rights groups say could restrict protection for asylum seekers.
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No. The fact is that broadening the asylum criteria would result in genuine asylum seekers being crowded out of the process and denied refuge.
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Under MPP, Central American asylum seekers who illegally enter the United States are returned to Mexico while their asylum cases proceed in U.S. courts.
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Belgium's Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration, Theo Francken, says Belgium is not responsible for the care of migrants unless they apply for asylum.
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Recently, the administration also changed asylum laws so that people fleeing domestic violence and gang violence are no longer eligible to apply for asylum.
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In any case, it is likely that the bulk of new asylum seekers will continue to try to reach Germany, where they want asylum.
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Under normal circumstances, if either a parent or a child passed an asylum interview, the government would allow them both to file asylum claims.
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By law, anyone asking for asylum has to be taken in for a "credible-fear hearing" to determine if the asylum claim has merit.
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Lawyers for immigration advocacy organizations said they violated a founding principle of federal asylum: to judge each person's asylum claim on its own merits.
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Late last month, the same judge that blocked Trump's asylum ban, US District Judge Jon Tigar, also blocked the administration's new rule restricting asylum.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has reinterpreted asylum law to make it much more difficult for immigrants fleeing gang and domestic violence to get asylum.
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But advocates and asylum officers have told BuzzFeed that sending the asylum-seekers to Guatemala is not legal and could put them in jeopardy.
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The deal will allow U.S. immigration officials to force migrants requesting asylum at the U.S.-Mexican border to apply for asylum in Guatemala first.
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As a result, immigration judges can reject asylum claims, regardless of their merits, if the applicant did not first seek asylum in another country.
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The new rule would require people traveling through another country to seek asylum in the United States to first seek asylum in that country.
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The deal will allow U.S. immigration officials to send migrants requesting asylum at the U.S.-Mexican border to apply for asylum in Guatemala instead.
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In July, the Trump administration implemented a new asylum policy that has made it even more difficult for political refugees to be granted asylum.
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The state of El Salvador's asylum agency is even more pitiful: The Salvadoran newspaper El Faro reported that it only has one asylum officer.
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Trump says asylum applicants are coached Trump also called the asylum program "a scam," alleging that lawyers coach tough, violent men through the process.
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Many of these asylum seekers have now been waiting one, two, three, four, and even five years for an interview with an asylum officer.
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Experts also told VICE News that moving asylum seekers from one EU country to another could seriously damage their chances of being granted asylum.
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Under current federal regulation, an asylum seeker can apply for a work permit five months (150 days) after sending in her full asylum application.
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But for months, the number of asylum seekers going to San Ysidro has outstripped the number the US actually allows in to seek asylum.
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There will be a new regime on the German-Austrian border—the main entry point to Germany for asylum-seekers travelling from southern Europe—"making sure that asylum-seekers for whose asylum procedures other EU states are responsible are prevented from entering the country".
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More difficult for asylum seekers Along these lines, the guidance also makes it more difficult to receive asylum protections, a key exception to "expedited removal" that often lets people stay in the US as they await a final ruling on their eligibility for asylum.
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When asked about his relationship with asylum staff at the agency, Cuccinelli said, he visits with members of the asylum division in the course of his travels and is "working to build relationships within the asylum division," as well as other parts of USCIS.
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Already asylum outcomes vary dramatically based on the judge that hears them—in San Antonio immigration court, for instance, only 2.3 percent of asylum seekers won their cases with one judge, while 75 percent of asylum seekers won with another judge, according to TRAC data.
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That means that for the moment, at least, asylum officers would be able to determine that a victim of domestic or gang violence still deserves asylum — or deserves to plead her asylum case — if there's another precedent decision that they think fits the case.
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The case before Sullivan was brought on behalf of 12 asylum seekers who had been rejected in the initial asylum screening process, an interview with an asylum officer to determine whether they had a "credible fear" of persecution if returned to their home countries.
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Under Buttigieg's plan, asylum officers would be allowed to fully adjudicate asylum applications for immigrants in detention, rather than forcing them to go to immigration court to argue their asylum claims — a process that can take months or even years and is more adversarial.
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Dree K. Collopy is a partner at Benach Collopy LLP, adjunct professor at the American University Washington College of Law, chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's National Asylum & Refugee Committee, and Author of the leading treatise on U.S. asylum law, AILA's Asylum Primer.
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President Trump has unveiled the next phase of his asylum crackdown: a new wave of regulations that would force asylum seekers' cases through much faster and make it harder for asylum seekers to afford to apply and live in the US in the meantime.
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The principle states that asylum seekers should receive no advantage from taking a boat to Australia over asylum seekers who did not make that journey.
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Seehofer wants Germany to turn back migrants at the border who have previously applied for asylum or registered as asylum-seekers in other European countries.
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Simon said it was unacceptable that asylum-seekers, including many children, were being detained on the border, as seeking asylum was a fundamental human right.
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Thuraissigiam applied for asylum, citing fear of persecution in Sri Lanka, and an asylum officer determined he had not established a credible fear of persecution.
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Asylum officers are supposed to "take into account the credibility" of the asylum seeker, "and other facts known to the officer," in making their assessments.
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At the time, about 120 migrants were waiting to claim asylum, Leutert reported in her ongoing study of asylum claims and other border migration issues.
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Those conditions can be used by asylum-seekers as evidence during their asylum hearings to show dangers they face if they are sent back home.
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Migrants crossing the U.S. southern border to seek asylum will be sent back to Mexico, where they will await the outcome of their asylum applications.
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The trip came after Belgian Asylum State Secretary Theo Francken said over the weekend that it would be "not unrealistic" for Puigdemont to request asylum.
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It allows officials to confiscate cash, jewellery and other valuables from asylum-seekers, supposedly to pay for the cost of their upkeep in asylum centres.
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Asylum officers are being told to be tougher and more skeptical when interviewing migrants seeking asylum in the U.S., the Washington Post's Nick Miroff reports.
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UKLGIG has recorded at least two incidents of trans and intersex asylum seekers being sexually harassed in British asylum accommodation, with others suffering verbal abuse.
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"The Immigration and Asylum Office will conduct the asylum assessment procedure in accordance with both Hungarian and international law," Orban's office said in a statement.
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Just because some asylum seekers are poor, or come from poverty-stricken countries, she says, that does not automatically make them refugees nor guarantee asylum.
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There's a LOT of paperwork The most important document for asylum seekers is the I-589, the Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal.
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An approval, or "Grant of Asylum," officially gives someone asylum status and allows them to apply for things like a green card and immigration benefits.
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The administration points to the much lower percent of asylum claims that are eventually granted as a sign that there are too many asylum claims.
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Stamp said it was crucial to accelerate the asylum process and to expand the list of countries to which rejected asylum seekers could be deported.
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The Trump administration had started limiting the number of asylum seekers -- to the extent that families were sleeping on bridges while waiting to request asylum.
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Asylum law requires that an applicant be physically present in the U.S. The Trump administration's new restrictions on asylum are legally questionable, inhumane and wrong.
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" Calling asylum "an instrument to preserve the right to life," he warned, "Unless overturned, the decision will erode the capacity of asylum to save lives.
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" Any book, for its writer, "is its own asylum," Ms. Dombek laments, "but a book about narcissism is like the padded cell inside the asylum.
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Suspending new asylum interviews, they write, will do nothing to affect the factors driving asylum applicants to the U.S.-Mexico border in the first place.
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On March 14, Yazmin had her credible fear interview with an asylum officer, the first hurdle in order to move forward in the asylum process.
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Immigration judges and asylum officers need to tighten the standards of qualifying for asylum — or even being allowed to stay to present a case — accordingly.
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Just because people seek asylum in this country doesn't mean they need to be held in high security prison while they attempt to seek asylum.
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If the asylum officer deems the immigrant's fear to be "credible," she's put into standard immigration court proceedings to plead her asylum case more fully.
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Such a change would probably be challenged in court (as the asylum ban was) but might be on firmer legal ground than the asylum ban.
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Belgium's state secretary for asylum policy and migration, Theo Francken, has argued that the state cannot take responsibility for those who do not claim asylum.
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Bukele also addressed the asylum agreement that El Salvador and the United States signed late last week to expand its capacity to accept asylum-seekers.
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Vashukevich has said she was Deripaska's mistress, and that she asked the U.S. for asylum, saying that she would share the recordings if granted asylum.
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But the interview with an asylum officer is the only chance asylum-seekers may have to demonstrate that they fear persecution in their home country.
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There has been a rise in asylum seekers to the US, but seeking asylum is legal, and that's not what Trump is focusing on here.
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Trump wants to tighten laws to make it harder for people to claim asylum, citing a more than tenfold rise in asylum claims versus 2011.
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Early indications are that the tightening standards might be working; anecdotal evidence suggests that asylum officers have gotten stingier in approving asylum seekers after interviews.
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The policies of mandatory detention and, now, pushing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico, or forcing them to apply for asylum first in a country without a functioning asylum system and where they remain in danger, are meant to force asylum seekers to weigh two competing miseries: the present fear of death, or the long slog through a punitive immigration detention system with slim chances of relief.
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He asked whether the new restriction on where asylum-seekers must cross the border undermined the Immigration and Nationality Act, which sets the conditions for asylum.
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On Thursday, the president said he planned to block arrivals from making asylum claims outside of designated ports of entry, in spite of current asylum law.
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It would get much, much easier for an asylum claim to get marked "frivolous," making the asylum seeker permanently ineligible for any form of legal status.
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Previously, Border Patrol agents used their discretion to either detain or release immigrants seeking asylum, allowing some to live freely while their asylum cases were processed.
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HAHN: When people come here, when people come here seeking asylum... PIRRO: No, Chris, am I to assume that your parents sought asylum through regular channels?
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Over the last ten years, there has been a 1,23 percent increase in asylum claims, resulting in an asylum backlog in our country of 600,000 cases.
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People applying for asylum at the southern ports is not illegal immigration, they have a right to apply for asylum, the numbers are but the problem.
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But there is also a suspicion that the national asylum commission, which oversees the territorial bodies, wants to lower asylum protection numbers to limit future arrivals.
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He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Mr. Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum.
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"If an asylum seeker is suspected of being a terrorist, then they can and should be taken into custody during the asylum request procedure," it said.
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Washington (CNN)Attorney General William Barr has overruled an asylum decision that protected some immigrants seeking asylum based on family ties, the Justice Department announced Monday.
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The administration contends the majority of asylum-seekers are really economic migrants who will stay home if their only option is to seek asylum somewhere else.
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They reported seeing immigrants and asylum seekers held in "punitive conditions" comparable to those of convicted criminals despite their right to seek asylum under international law.
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About 22013,22005 people have sought asylum in the wealthy Scandinavian country of 22011 million since 22017, and it took in 226,20173 asylum seekers in 22017 alone.
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Over the past several years, attorneys representing asylum seekers made heroic efforts to preserve asylum claims despite the lack of a court date within one year.
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The Oromos say the UNHCR – which by agreement with the Egyptian government has responsibility for determining asylum applications in Egypt – has routinely rejected their asylum claims.
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If someone has been in the US for less than a year, or is seeking asylum at a port of entry, it is considered affirmative asylum.
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For this reason, asylum families would not normally be separated at the border unless prosecutors can find a criminal charge to use against the asylum-seeker.
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Then US Attorney General Jeff Sessions implemented a new policy rejecting gang violence as a basis for asylum -- the premise for the Villatoro family's asylum claim.
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But you've heard that the ports of entry into the US can't process asylum seekers quickly and that border officials sometimes refuse to accept asylum seekers.
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The advocates testified that, while asylum is granted in nearly half of cases nationwide, Charlotte judges granted asylum in just 250 percent of cases in 229.
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It has slowed the processing of asylum requests at ports of entry, and it has ordered that some asylum seekers be required to wait in Mexico.
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He's radically expanded the use of immigration detention and forced thousands (and counting) of asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico — with further asylum crackdowns potentially ahead.
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The U.S. has sent hundreds of asylum-seekers from Honduras and El Salvador to Guatemala since the Asylum Cooperative Agreement was reached with Guatemala's previous administration.
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This rule attempts to reduce the amount of asylum applications filed in the U.S. and only permits certain asylum-seekers to file for protections in Guatemala.
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Guatemala is not only producing large numbers of asylum seekers arriving at the US border, it also lacks the capability to receive asylum seekers en masse.
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They could force people fleeing their homes to seek asylum in neighboring nations where there are often weak asylum systems, severe poverty and high crime rates.
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Syrians also had the best chance of winning asylum, with over 98 percent of applications receiving a positive reply, followed by Eritreans and stateless asylum-seekers.
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The Oromos say the UNHCR - which by agreement with the Egyptian government has responsibility for determining asylum applications in Egypt - has routinely rejected their asylum claims.
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This could greatly increase asylum applications, and a large increase in asylum applications would bury our already overwhelmed immigration court under an avalanche of new cases.
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But it effectively shuts out most asylum seekers and, on its own, represents the "most significant change in the modern asylum system since 13," Chishti said.
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The requirement that some of those seeking asylum stay in Mexico as they await their US court dates marks an unprecedented change in US asylum policy.
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While Thursday's victory in court means another chance at asylum for hundreds of reunified children, the government is granting asylum to fewer and fewer undocumented immigrants.
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And Mexico isn't necessarily a safe place for LGBTQ asylum-seekers — or, considering the Mexican government's treatment of Central American migrants, for asylum-seekers in general.
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Ports of entry are already overwhelmed with asylum seekers; at most ports, asylum seekers have to wait on the Mexican side of the border, sometimes for weeks, before Customs and Border Protection officials allow them to cross into the US and claim their right to asylum.
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The asylum corps was already feeling ground down before MPP went into effect: They've had to implement other Trump administration efforts to restrict asylum, from DOJ decisions limiting domestic and gang violence claims to the short-lived "asylum ban," while doing more screening interviews than ever.
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If the asylum seeker passes that interview and is referred to immigration court to fully pursue her asylum claim, no one tells her she must still file an application for asylum, that it must be done within one year, and how to actually go about filing.
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To the extent that the illegal entry statute may conflict with our asylum law, the asylum law trumps the illegal entry statute due both to its long-standing and widespread acceptance, and that the illegal entry statute was never intended to prevent people from seeking asylum.
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Very few aliens will be able to apply for asylum Asylum is likely to be the only relief available to most undocumented aliens, but the eligibility provision, 8 USC §85033(b)(1)(A), states that aliens who establish that they are eligible "may" be granted asylum.
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"We look forward to having the injunction lifted in its entirety on appeal so that we can protect legitimate asylum seekers, preserve resources for addressing their claims, and prevent illegal migrants who bypass regional asylum opportunities from overwhelming our asylum system," Grisham said in the statement.
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Trump's asylum agreement with Guatemala, which he announced in the Oval Office last month, could limit the ability of some Central American migrants to claim asylum in the US. The agreement commits Guatemala to extend asylum to migrants who seek it when they're moving through the country.
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The Supreme Court earlier this month upheld a policy that makes most asylum-seekers who pass through another country before reaching the U.S. ineligible for asylum, with exceptions for victims of trafficking and migrants who have been denied asylum in the countries through which they traveled.
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In March, Sessions issued a ruling reversing a BIA precedent in the Matter of E- F- L- H-, which had forced judges to give asylum-seekers a full court hearing (even if the judge believed the asylum-seeker's written case didn't "prima facie" qualify him for asylum).
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Not all of those are asylum claims, but there's recently been an uptick in credible fear claims at the border, the first step in the asylum process.
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One of those women, Moudi, has since left Saudi Arabia and, like Arwa, has decided to seek asylum in the US. Moudi recently began her asylum application.
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Free asylum-seekers Immigration advocates have asked the President to release thousands of detained Central American women and children who are seeking asylum in the United States.
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Notably, statistics of asylum denials between 2012 and 2017 show that the top ten countries from which asylum applications were denied were all majority non-white countries.
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U.S. immigration officials have postponed interviews with asylum seekers on Nauru, asylum seekers and an official told Reuters, indicating Washington is already blocking progress on the deal.
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Marilu Cabrera, a spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration services, which receives asylum applications, said the agency does not comment on whether specific individuals have sought asylum.
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Only then did they turn around — allowing the asylum seekers to follow them, crossing onto US soil and accessing their right to seek asylum under US law.
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Andrew Free, an immigration and civil rights lawyer who has worked with asylum seekers at the border, said CBP has closed "America's doors" to asylum-seeking families.
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Markus Soeder opened a center for asylum and repatriation Friday as part of the southern German state&aposs efforts to streamline asylum procedures, which sometimes take years.
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"Asylum seekers will be put at increased risk of violence and other harms at the border, and many will be deprived of meritorious asylum claims," he wrote.
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The Trump administration in November attempted to crack down on asylum by prohibiting certain people who cross into the country between ports of entry from claiming asylum.
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Asylum is a discretionary remedy, as established by case law, and the government has the right to reject asylum claims even of those who satisfy eligibility requirements.
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In preparing him for his asylum hearing in immigration court, I asked him a standard question: Why did he not stop and ask for asylum in Mexico?
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"Asylum seekers will be put at increased risk of violence and other harms at the border, and many will be deprived of meritorious asylum claims," he said.
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Here's what's facing the court: Asylum ban Solicitor General Noel Francisco has asked the Supreme Court to allow a presidential proclamation targeting asylum to go into effect.
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Most of the people who claim asylum especially when they're given a lawyer and I bet mostly audience doesn't know if you come here to claim asylum.
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According to the United Nations refugee agency, there were 27,000 Venezuelan asylum seekers worldwide last year, and so far around 50,000 have applied for asylum this year.
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The United States promises asylum to those fleeing persecution and seeking refuge from violence, but it is instead turning asylum seekers away and returning them to danger.
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Mexico would agree to take in asylum seekers from Guatemala, who would be swiftly deported from the U.S. rather than await their asylum cases in the states.
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The deal, which falls short of an overall agreement to revise the EU's asylum laws, is set to create new "centers" for housing and processing asylum seekers.
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Beyond eliminating asylum at the border, proposals have been floated to further toughen the "credible fear" test, which is the first step to winning an asylum case.
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Most asylum seekers pass their "credible fear" interviews but are eventually denied asylum later in the process, when the burden of proof becomes higher and more specific.
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The asylum request comes as the Trump administration says it will begin denying entry to all migrants illegally crossing the U.S. southern border, including those seeking asylum.
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Known only by their first names, Priya and Nadesalingam arrived in Australia separately as asylum-seekers in 2012 and 2013, before Canberra began holding asylum-seekers offshore.
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"At the end of the day, the reason this is happening is our asylum laws reward people who have no real claim to asylum," Mr. Krikorian said.
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Late last month, President Donald Trump postponed an operation set to target 2,000 asylum-seeking families and gave Congress a few weeks to figure out asylum reform.
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On Saturday, the Greek committee for asylum requests ruled in favor of granting the officer asylum after determining there was no evidence implicating him in the coup.
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"The purpose of this memorandum is to strengthen asylum procedures to safeguard our system against rampant abuse of our asylum process," Mr. Trump said in the memo.
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Catch up: The administration has already tried to restrict the daily number of asylum applications, who qualifies for asylum and where migrants must wait for a resolution.
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Right now, it can take months, or years, for an asylum seeker who's not detained in a US immigration detention center to have her asylum case evaluated.
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Trump's asylum ban is part of a concerted effort by the administration to tighten asylum amid a record influx of children and families crossing the southern border.
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The principles also include an overhaul of the asylum system, including tougher penalties for asylum fraud, and speedier deportations for unaccompanied minors who arrive at the border.
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Guatemala is not only producing large numbers of asylum seekers arriving at the US border, but it also lacks the capability to receive asylum seekers en masse.
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The bill would also make it easier for minors to get asylum and aims to halve the time it takes for authorities to process any asylum request.
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Lee Hockstader: Is it also a right for asylum seekers to cross into the United States and wait for asylum in the United States as they apply?
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Once the asylum-seekers pass this interview, their cases are forwarded to an immigration judge who takes over their asylum case, which can take years to adjudicate.
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The deal allows U.S. immigration officials to force migrants requesting asylum at the U.S.-Mexican border to first apply for asylum in countries through which they traveled.
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For example, asylum law requires that an official application be filed in immigration court within one year of the asylum seeker's last entry into the United States.
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It's the result of policies that force asylum seekers into Mexico, waiting to be initially processed and then waiting again for a decision on their asylum application.
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Asylum seekers: As the U.S. tightens its policies at the southern border, many asylum seekers are contemplating hiring smugglers in Mexico, despite the dangers and increasing costs.
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The administration also recently began deporting asylum seekers to Guatemala if they failed to apply for asylum there under a deal with that Central American country's government.
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Because she failed to persuade an asylum officer of her credible fear, and her appeal to a judge was then denied, Susan can't try seeking asylum again.
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Asylum seekers — whether they have presented themselves at a port of entry to ask for asylum (breaking no US law) or crossed into the US between ports of entry (committing the misdemeanor of illegal entry) and evoked their right to asylum after being apprehended by a Border Patrol officer — can't be deported until they've been screened by an asylum officer to see if they have a "credible fear" of persecution.
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The new rule requires asylum-seekers to have first applied for asylum and been rejected in one of the countries they traveled through before becoming eligible to apply in the United States, shifting the burden to ill-equipped countries such as Mexico and Guatemala to process asylum claims.
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But in another poll by Quinnipiac, respondents were given the Trump administration's rationale, which hints that migrants were using asylum as an excuse to enter the country illegally: As you may know, some families seeking asylum from their home country cross the U.S. border illegally and then request asylum.
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Guatemala says it's suspending asylum agreement with US March 17: An asylum agreement between the United States and Guatemala was suspended out of caution over the coronavirus, Guatemala's government announced, a setback for the Trump administration, which has increasingly relied on its accord with the country to curb asylum.
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Tigar issued a nationwide injunction in July blocking the administration's rule, which would make most asylum-seekers who pass through another country before reaching the U.S. ineligible for asylum, with exceptions for victims of trafficking and migrants who have been denied asylum in the countries they traveled through.
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There aren't separate in absentia statistics just for asylum-seekers caught entering the US. But statistics suggest that relatively few of the people who say they're seeking asylum when they're caught by a Border Patrol agent end up seeing the process of applying for asylum through to the end.
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Asylum seekers crossing the U.S. southern border will be sent back to Mexico where they will await the adjudication of their asylum claims, according to the joint declaration.
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An open borders asylum policy would mean offering asylum to the ones that managed to make it here – survival of the fittest – without taking real need into consideration.
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But remember — as Vox's Dara Lind writes in her story on Trump's "ongoing war on asylum" — applying for asylum, as the immigrants say they plan, is perfectly legal.
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Normally, a migrant has to pass a screening interview with an asylum officer in order to apply for asylum; if they fail, they're deported to their home country.
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An asylum-seeker rests outside El Chaparral port of entry while he waits for his turn to present himself to US border authorities to request asylum, in Tijuana.
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President Donald Trump called on Homeland Security and the attorney general to speed up the resolution of asylum cases in court and institute a fee for asylum applications.
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However, Pueblos Sin Fronteras pushed back and said the caravan was not being disbanded and that some migrants with asylum claims would continue moving forward to seek asylum.
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San Ysidro theoretically has space for 300 asylum seekers, but that's reduced whenever people have to be segregated due to disease or safety concerns (like LGBT asylum seekers).
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The work permit isn't valid after her asylum claim is denied, and she has to demonstrate that she's still seeking asylum if she tries to get it renewed.
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A total of 1,920 asylum requests, some of them filed last year, had been rejected and 1,488 applications had to be terminated as asylum seekers had left Hungary.
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In 2015, nearly 96,000 lone children sought asylum in the European Union, almost four times as many as the previous year, according to the European Asylum Support Office.
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The rule also violates federal law requiring "that asylum cannot be categorically denied based on an asylum seeker's route to the United States," attorneys for the groups wrote.
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I would reform our asylum system, rescind the travel and asylum bans, and remove the fear of deportation for Dreamers, their families and others here under protective status.
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Many of the asylum seekers interviewed for the advocacy lawsuit admitted that they'd done just that after one or more failed attempts to seek asylum the "right" way.
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The rare move underscored the strain caused by the inflow of asylum seekers in Canada, which has seen more than 30,000 asylum seekers illegally crossing the Canada-U.
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"Delays in the timely processing of asylum applications are detrimental to legitimate asylum seekers," said USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna in the agency's January announcement about the program.
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But for the purposes of the shutdown, the key point is the one Trump himself makes here: Asylum seekers are allowed in because applying for asylum is legal.
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Montreal's Olympic Stadium is being used as a center for housing hundreds of asylum seekers, and a camp is being built for 2900 asylum seekers near the border.
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It is not illegal to enter the country at a port of entry and ask for asylum, as international law requires that the United States consider asylum claims.
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Prohibited penalties might include being charged with immigration or criminal offences relating to the seeking of asylum, or being arbitrarily detained purely on the basis of seeking asylum.
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Central American migrants have become more prone to making asylum claims and traveling in family groups, which allows them to wait out their asylum cases outside of detention.
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Those requesting asylum would meet with an officer to make their claim; they'd undergo a brief interview and get an official "Notice to Appear" for their asylum hearing.
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Sessions recently inserted himself into an asylum case involving a battered woman so that he could do away with the ability of domestic violence victims to claim asylum.
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Asylum seekers who pass through another country before reaching the United States will be ineligible for asylum when they reach the southern border, according to the new rule.
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It also includes provisions like adding more immigration judges and allowing asylum-seekers to request asylum from their home countries, two areas Democrats tentatively say they could support.
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The new policy would make asylum seekers ineligible if they passed through another country on their way to the United States and did not first seek asylum there.
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But a pro-government newspaper, Magyar Idök, reported that the Hungarian Immigration and Asylum Office had established that the legal conditions to grant him asylum had been met.
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The Saudi teen whose pleas for asylum went viral after she fled from her family and escaped to Thailand earlier this week has been granted asylum in Canada.
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Mexico has previously rejected the idea of such an agreement, which would mean that U.S.-bound asylum seekers traveling via Mexico would have to first claim asylum there.
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One Brooklyn nonprofit, Central American Legal Assistance, said that after Mr. Sessions's asylum ruling in June, New York judges still granted asylum in 15 out of 20 cases.
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Xavier, an asylum-seeker from Venezuela, bounced between four different detention centers in Louisiana for a year as he waited for a judge to decide his asylum case.
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Last year five Honduran asylum seekers and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services sued to challenge the lawfulness of asylum directives issued under Cuccinelli.
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Story at a glance The new immigration policy aimed at curtailing asylum seekers is proving extremely effective; only 23 percent of asylum requests have been granted since September.
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The Dublin Regulation, in force since 1997, states that the country where an asylum-seeker first enters the union is responsible for registering his or her asylum application.
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DHS officials say the asylum-seekers are fine with going to Guatemala: "All asylum-seekers who are sent to Guatemala have chosen to go," an agency spokesperson said.
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Advocates and attorneys at the border maintain that making asylum-seekers wait for months along the border was essentially denying them asylum and a violation of US laws.
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Many criticized calls to return migrants to France, pointing out that international law did not require asylum seekers to claim asylum in the first safe country they entered.
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The new detention centers would house new arrivals until their asylum processes were underway, as well as others showing "delinquent behavior" or not entitled to asylum, Petsas said.
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The accords bar migrants from seeking asylum in the US, with some exceptions, and allows the US to instead send asylum seekers to one of the three countries.
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The administration has not had to rely on those policies to deport asylum seekers just yet; Trump has made asylum inaccessible for most recent arrivals by other means.
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In 2017, the most recent year for which asylum is available, the US granted asylum to 3,471 migrants from El Salvador, 2,954 from Guatemala, and 2,048 from Honduras.
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The situation had been inflamed by asylum-seekers committing sexual assaults and criminal offences and by difficulties in deporting people who were not accepted for asylum, he said.
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After an asylum seeker is granted asylum, she has the right to file a petition for family reunification for children under the age of 21 and a spouse.
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Immigrants who are seeking asylum are not permitted to work until at least six months after they file their asylum applications, so Portland has scrambled to provide support.
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And paradoxically, the trauma of family separation, and their anxiety to reunite, might be keeping asylum seekers from presenting their claims to asylum officers in a compelling way.
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" KON KARAPANAGIOTIDIS, CEO, ASYLUM SEEKER RESOURCE CENTRE: "Today's news of a new coalition government under the reign of Scott Morrison spells disaster for refugees and people seeking asylum.
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Under current US and international law, asylum seekers from Central America are allowed to apply for asylum either in Mexico or in the US. Many take the first option: Asylum applications in Mexico have gone up more than 1,000 percent since 2013, and most are from citizens of Northern Triangle countries.
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Booker's plan would also undo the Trump administration's move to eliminate protections for so-called Dreamers, undo the administration's Muslim travel ban and "expand pathways for refugees and those seeking asylum" by removing barriers to asylum, increase the cap on refugees and up border staffing for interviewing those seeking asylum.
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The national asylum agency in Guatemala employs less than ten people; the move appears to be yet another impossible barrier meant to discourage people from requesting asylum in the U.S. For Ruben Garcia in El Paso, the federal government's callous position on asylum is a moral crisis of historic proportions.
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When the mother and daughter finally got a chance to ask for asylum, in May, they were sent back to Tijuana as part of the administration's Remain in Mexico policy, which requires some asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their asylum cases play out, a process that often takes months.
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A rule recently reinstated by the Supreme Court prevents migrants from obtaining asylum if they passed through another country other than their own before arriving in the US. That means that asylum seekers from any country but Mexico are ineligible for asylum if they show up at the southern border.
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"Since the 1980s, there has been a consistent trend toward making it more difficult for asylum seekers to reach territory where they can ask for asylum," said David FitzGerald, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers.
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Almost 120,000 people have received some form of asylum to Italy over the past four years, while roughly 200,000 migrants live in shelters awaiting the result of asylum requests.
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President Donald Trump on Monday evening proposed sweeping changes to how the US treats asylum-seekers, including charging fees to file asylum applications and limiting access to work permits.
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The British Red Cross said it helped over 23,000 homeless and destitute asylum seekers in 2016 who relied on an asylum allowance of about 36 pounds ($46) a week.
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And applications for asylum fell by 44 percent across the EU last year, compared to 2016, according to a report by the European Asylum Support Office released this month.
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Except for those who managed to elude fingerprinting at dockside and slip northward into other European countries to claim asylum there, the vast majority filed asylum requests in Italy.
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Trump administration officials have often accused asylum-seekers of entering the country illegally, though claiming asylum at the border is a longstanding right enshrined by US and international law.
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Under his direction, the agency was also considering moves to institute a fee for asylum applications and extend the time asylum-seekers needed to wait to obtain work permits.
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Ramos said 30 to 40 lawyers in Tijuana have been going over people's asylum cases in more detail, trying to weed out migrants who don't have strong asylum claims.
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President Trump directed top immigration officials on Monday to issue new regulations to speed up the resolution of asylum cases in court and institute a fee for asylum applications.
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To add to the sense that the asylum application process is stretched thin, the current keeper of the waiting list is a Venezuelan who'd like to seek asylum himself.
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The current policy does not apply to people who apply for asylum in New Zealand, although the isolated island nation has few asylum seekers compared to other developed nations.
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Administration officials have argued that the nation's immigration court system has bogged down amid an uptick in asylum claims and that asylum restrictions are intended to provide a reprieve.
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The administration would have a hard time reconciling that position with its asylum agreement with El Salvador, which requires the country to have the capacity to accept asylum seekers.
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Mexico has agreed to house migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. — which will include, housing, offering jobs, health care and education — while the U.S. agrees to accelerate asylum claims.
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Germany&aposs asylum authority says it will re-examine some 183,000 cases handled by one of its regional offices amid a scandal over the improper granting of asylum requests.
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This could mean asylum seekers at US ports of entry could be redirected to apply for asylum status in Guatemala instead, which would make them Guatemala's responsibility, not ours.
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Under the EU&aposs asylum laws — currently the subject of revision amid a major political dispute — migrants must apply for asylum in the country where they first enter Europe.
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Asylum seekers are being turned away illegally at the U.S.-Mexico border Asylum seekers are being turned away illegally at the U.S.-Mexico border This segment originally aired Feb.
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According to federal law, border agents are supposed to grant an interview with an asylum officer to migrants who requests asylum or express fear of returning to their country.
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The government, which has set aside 65 billion Swedish crowns ($7 billion) to take care of asylum-seekers and refugees, is cutting welfare payments and accommodation for asylum-seekers.
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Between 2009 and 2013, the latest numbers available, 33,022 Mexicans arrived in the United States seeking asylum, according to the U.S. Department of Justice; 454 people were granted asylum.
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Most will face return once their asylum claims have been found inadmissible, on the ground that they reached Greece from Turkey, now considered a safe country for asylum-seekers.
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In one recent case, the immigration judge cited him as saying there is a lot of fraud in the asylum process as evidence that the asylum seeker was lying.
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The administration also fails to understand that our asylum laws exist to protect people, and that they require that those seeking asylum have a chance to apply for protection.
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Concerning the situation internally in the EU, secondary movements of asylum seekers between Member States risk jeopardising the integrity of the Common European Asylum System and the Schengen acquis.
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The Trump administration this week escalated matters by issuing a rule barring asylum seekers who enter the United States in violation of a presidential proclamation from being granted asylum.
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Even if this were true — and no data supports this claim (in fact numbers of asylum seekers have recently gone up) — separating asylum seeking families only creates more problems.
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"The purpose of this memorandum is to strengthen asylum procedures to safeguard our system against rampant abuse of our asylum process," Trump said in a memo announcing the plan.
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Ninety percent of Afghan asylum claims are rejected as invalid, according to the Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers, compared with 40 percent to 50 percent in most European countries.
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In a presidential memorandum released late Monday, Trump proposed migrants be forced to pay for their asylum applications, making the U.S. an outlier in roadblocking asylum-seekers with fees.
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Asylum seekers: Another official said the administration thinks it's "reasonable" to consider whether an immigrant passed through a country where they could have sought asylum before they got here.
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Trump administration officials demanded that Mexico support changes in asylum rules that would allow the United States to more readily reject asylum seekers from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
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The asylum seekers also run into trouble in the asylum centers, where they are forced to live among their peers after they have outed themselves to an immigration official.
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By excluding gang and domestic violence as grounds for asylum, the directive makes it nearly impossible for some asylum seekers to move onto the second phase of the process.
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Whether the surge in asylum applications on the southern border justifies virtually eliminating the possibility of asylum for vulnerable migrants is not really the question before the Supreme Court.
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Under the EU-Turkey deal, new arrivals must stay on the islands until their asylum bids are processed, but the lengthy asylum process has led to a big backlog.
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S.," requesting asylum, officers determined that she did have the "significant possibility" of ultimately receiving asylum and "allowed her to move on to the next step of the process.
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She has conducted several fact-finding missions to the U.S. border to look at the protection needs of asylum seekers and the effects of changes to U.S. asylum policy.
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In 2017, the most recent year for which asylum information is available, the US granted asylum to 3,471 migrants from El Salvador, 2,954 from Guatemala, and 2,048 from Honduras.
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When asylum seekers from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras fail to establish eligibility for asylum, they are returned to their countries, regardless of the danger that awaits them there.
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If asylum seekers attend the immigration hearing and are denied asylum, they believe they can continue to work and live in the United States, despite at that being illegal.
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They would make people seeking asylum who pass through another country before the United States ineligible unless they first seek asylum in the country through which they are traveling.
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There is no cap on asylum numbers, and in recent years, roughly 20,000 to 25,000 asylum seekers have been granted protections annually, according to the latest available government statistics.
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Under the typical process, asylum seekers are given an interview with a U.S. asylum officer to determine if they have a "credible fear" of persecution in their home country.
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Instead of processing the asylum seekers, as is required by international asylum law, some agents are rejecting the individuals seeking protection — or worse, separating the parents from the children.
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If "credible fear" is found, immigrants enter what is known as a "full removal proceeding" where they can apply for asylum and obtain judicial review if asylum is denied.
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The agreement marks a significant shift in US asylum policy as migrants who may have a legitimate claim for asylum are sent to another country to make their case.
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After an initial assessment by border officers, asylum seekers referred for removal to Guatemala will then undergo a telephone interview with a USCIS asylum officer in the Arlington office.
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Under the deal, asylum seekers who pass through Guatemala on their way to the United States could be returned there by federal authorities to have their asylum claims heard.
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Finnish broadcaster MTV, citing an unnamed source, said the main suspect had been denied asylum in Finland, although police said only he had been "part of the asylum process".
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Those making asylum claims are turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, where they are detained and given appointments with asylum officers from Citizenship and Immigration Services, he added.
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The administration last month also proposed charging asylum seekers $50 for their applications, a move that would make the United States one of four countries to charge for asylum.
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Why it matters: The rule could prevent some asylum seekers, awaiting a decision on their asylum claims in the U.S., from legally working for a long period of time.
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And some asylum seekers, according to reports, are being physically blocked from setting foot on US soil, which would give them the legal right to pursue an asylum claim.
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Third, and most important, many migrants were seeking asylum without visas, but it is not illegal to arrive at the border without a visa and make an asylum claim.
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The result would definitely be that more asylum seekers would be given removal orders — and it's possible more of them would be prevented from applying for asylum at all.
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The Trump administration signed an asylum agreement with El Salvador on Friday, which could force Central American migrants who pass through the country to first seek asylum there or be sent back to the country once they reach the U.S.. Why it matters: The new agreement is the latest attempt to curtail Central Americans seeking asylum in the U.S. In return, the U.S. will help El Salvador with its capacity to offer asylum to migrants.
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Chang said Taiwan does not offer political asylum to Chinese, but that Taiwan can offer "long term stay", providing a visa to remain in Taiwan without officially calling it "asylum".
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Graham had unveiled his own plan to change the country's asylum laws in May that would have required migrants to apply for asylum in their home countries or in Mexico.
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The first step in avoiding deportation and applying for asylum is to establish to an asylum officer that you have a "credible fear" of being persecuted in your home country.
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The countries also agreed that individuals caught crossing into the US from Mexico seeking asylum will be "rapidly returned" to Mexico where they will await consideration of their asylum claims.
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In recent years, charitable organizations have set up at least four teams of migrant players to help asylum seekers socialize and adapt as they go through a lengthy asylum process.
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"UNHCR reiterates its call to states to protect the rights of Venezuelans, particularly the right to seek asylum and to have access to fair and effective asylum procedures," he said.
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The administration is processing the largest number of asylum cases in years and has granted asylum to more individuals — more than 14,000 — than in any year since at least 1996.
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In early October, Nauru unexpectedly opened the gates of its detention centre, allowing asylum seekers to move freely around the island, and said it would immediately process all asylum applications.
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" She added that speeding up asylum applications in immigration court was a worthy goal, but the other proposals work to "deter future asylum seekers from arriving at the US border.
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The Trump administration believes that many of these asylum seekers are frauds, and that they're just trying to be released so they can escape instead of pursuing their asylum cases.
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LGBT asylum seekers will be offered accommodation in the new center during their asylum-seeking process and will be allowed to stay for as long as they need, he said.
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People seeking asylum are generally held in federal custody until they can undergo a screening interview with an asylum officer, and need medical and background checks shortly after their arrival.
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Asylum-seekers like Zabiullah, arriving on Lesbos and four other Greek islands after the deal, now had to stay on these islands for the entirety of their asylum-application process.
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The man was one of only two asylum seekers the Greek asylum service have rejected out of a group of 30 applicants it considered, a government migration official told Reuters.
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Currently, asylum officers conduct an interview wherein officers will decide whether an individual has a "credible fear of persecution" that could make them eligible for asylum in the United States.
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Another would-be asylum-seeker, 14-year-old Victor, said he'd been warned on Sunday that the arrival of the Central Americans would delay his chance to apply for asylum.
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The asylum seekers each sheltered Snowden in their tiny Hong Kong apartments after they were introduced to the fugitive by his lawyer Robert Tibbo, who was handling their asylum cases.
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A federal judge in California ruled that the Trump administration can no longer return Central American asylum seekers to wait in Mexico before (and between) hearings in their asylum cases.
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The proposed law calls for agreements with source countries to send failed asylum-seekers home quickly, and would allocate asylum-seekers among EU countries, lightening the burden on Mediterranean states.
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It's not yet clear whether they'll be providing camps or other places for asylum-seekers to stay, or how they can guarantee the safety of asylum-seekers while in Mexico.
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In early October, Nauru unexpectedly opened the gates of its detention center, allowing asylum seekers to move freely around the island, and said it would immediately process all asylum applications.
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And if they do manage to win asylum in Mexico, they are generally precluded from getting asylum in the U.S., which is still the desired destination for most of them.
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Remain in Mexico: A recent federal court ruling allows immigration officials to force some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their asylum case is decided — which can take months.
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They'd have to make rulings in asylum cases more quickly, without giving immigrants time to present evidence, and without being able to grant asylum on the basis of domestic violence.
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It said Italy should "significantly improve" asylum procedures and make them understandable to migrants, while Europe should redouble its commitment for nations to share responsibility in taking in asylum-seekers.
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"The Hungarian legislation curtails asylum applicants' right to communicate with and be assisted by relevant national, international and non-governmental organizations by criminalizing support to asylum applications," the Commission said.
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Kunasek, 41, called for a night-time curfew for asylum seekers in 2016 and curbing asylum seekers' access to health services in 2015, according to human rights group SOS Mitmensch.
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The "Remain in Mexico" policy would mark a sharp change to long-standing asylum rules that allowed migrants to file asylum claims after entering the U.S. either legally or illegally.
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In May, Greece's top administrative court rejected an appeal by the Greek government against an administrative decision by an asylum board to grant asylum to one of the Turkish soldiers.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A record 7,586 people sought asylum in Japan in 2015, a 52 percent increase, while just 27 people applying for asylum were approved, government data showed on Saturday.
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Asylum seekers are allowed to be released into the US while they fight their asylum case, but only after they've passed a preliminary "credible fear" screening (which can take weeks).
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But asylum seekers generally follow a few steps once they're in custody: • A credible fear screening: This interview with an immigration official is the first step in the asylum process.
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In 2018, he turned his attention to asylum-seekers, championing a new rule that would disqualify those entering the country anywhere except a legal port of entry from claiming asylum.
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As part of any reform of the asylum system, Congress could consider whether this benefit outweighs the costs of requiring that all asylum seekers have access to qualified counsel. 3.
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They did not seek asylum and the vast majority would not have been granted asylum had they done so because they are not targets of political, ethnic or religious persecution.
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The administration has made a priority of trying to curtail asylum claims in the US, despite asylum being a valid protection under US law and an obligation under international law.
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Along with systematic family separation, the denial of asylum to women and children fleeing persecution makes the attack on asylum look like what it is: an attack on vulnerable people.
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The Mexican government announced Monday it will remain attentive to the U.S. treatment of asylum seekers, while seeking to distance itself from the Trump administration's proposed changes to asylum rules.
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The rule announced earlier this month by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security would make asylum-seekers who pass through another country before reaching the U.S. ineligible for asylum.
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NBC reported asylum law states that immigrants who have been detained should still be permitted to make a claim for asylum, whether or not they were given a deportation order.
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The asylum provisions state that aliens who are physically present in the United States may apply for asylum irrespective of their immigration status, unless one of the stated exceptions applies.
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Sessions argues that asylum is itself "discretionary" -- meaning that even if an applicant meets the eligibility requirements, they should have to prove on top of that why they deserve asylum.
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The Home Office said it "remains committed to improving the process for those claiming asylum on this basis" and that it ensures housing provide to LGBTi asylum seekers is safe.
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Trump did not release details on the asylum proposal or how it would be implemented, saying only that he intended to sign an order sometime next week restricting asylum claims.
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For that reason, national and international law are pretty clear that the US can't detain an asylum seeker now just to send a message to other potential future asylum seekers.
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The asylum case backlog has grown by more than 1,750 percent over the last five years, and the rate of new asylum applications has more than tripled, according to USCIS.
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But the Trump administration has sought to reshape US policy by allowing officers who interview asylum-seekers to weigh whether an immigrant crossed the border illegally against their asylum claim.
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Legal concerns also zero in on the detention of asylum-seekers, serious shortcomings in asylum procedures amid chaos on the ground, and various risks faced by those returned to Turkey.
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"There is a significant increase in terms of individuals seeking asylum," said Jennifer Higgins, an associate director at United States Immigration and Citizenship Services who handles refugee and asylum issues.
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Even a small fee could be insurmountable for many asylum seekers, said Victoria Neilson, a former official at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the government agency that accepts asylum applications.
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The researchers found that over a 15-year period, asylum applications in Europe increased along with "hotter-than-normal temperatures" in the countries where the asylum seekers had come from.
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"This means that those crossing the U.S. Southern Border to seek asylum will be rapidly returned to Mexico where they may await the adjudication of their asylum claims," it said.
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And he faulted the asylum officers at Citizenship and Immigration Services who were conducting the screenings for having a cultural bias that made them overly sympathetic to the asylum seekers.
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Some trainees may need to work to add to the meager allowances that the French government provides to asylum seekers, and applying for asylum can be a job in itself.
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Since November, more than 800 asylum-seekers from El Salvador and Honduras, including families, have been sent to Guatemala to seek asylum there, according to figures from the Guatemalan government.
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This would deny a shot at asylum to anyone who appears at America's southern land border having passed up a chance to apply for asylum while travelling through another country.
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The rule, unveiled on July 15, requires most immigrants who want asylum in the United States to seek asylum first in a third country they had traversed on their way.
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" Mr. Wilders, who supports shutting down mosques and closing the borders to asylum seekers, wrote on Twitter, "The man of open borders, asylum tsunami, mass immigration, Islamization, lies and deceit.
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A recent report by Human Rights First details how detention of asylum seekers has increased despite international norms and laws that recognize that asylum seekers should generally not be detained.
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The proposed fee for asylum seekers is inconsistent with the concept of welcoming individuals fleeing persecution and torture and amounts to "putting a price tag" on asylum, Ms. Realmuto said.
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"PACR and HARP systematically undermine the procedural safeguards guaranteed to those seeking asylum by rocketing asylum seekers through the credible fear process with no access to counsel," the complaint said.
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While only dozens of migrants have been deported under the deal, Guatemala's asylum system has also been criticized for not being sufficient enough to handle a surge of asylum seekers.
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Officials received guidance indicating Mexican asylum-seekers were to be included in a controversial program that began sending asylum-seekers to Guatemala in late November, according to the news outlet.
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Knowles said that asylum officers will be trained Tuesday on how cases will be handled for asylum seekers who will be transported to Guatemala to have their cases heard there.
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One of the changes at issue is a move to decrease the time asylum seekers have to prepare for their credible fear interview, the first step in many asylum cases.
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If an alien wants an asylum hearing before an immigration judge, he has to establish to the satisfaction of an asylum officer that he has a credible fear of persecution.
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Coogle says he has been receiving requests from Saudis for asylum support letters -- statements that vouch for the credibility of the asylum-seekers -- on a nearly bimonthly basis since 2016.
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The plaintiffs — a group of asylum seekers and organizations represented by the American Civil Liberties Union — argued the policy violates U.S. asylum law, international treaty obligations and federal regulatory requirements.
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The most famous of these moves is his June decision in Matter of A-B-, which substantially narrowed asylum seekers' ability to claim asylum based on domestic or gang violence.
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Since August 2016, asylum seekers can continue on-the-job training over three years and work for another two years under certain conditions even if their asylum requests were rejected.
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The United States has granted only 13.8 percent of Honduran asylum claims in the latest fiscal year compared to 20.9 percent for asylum seekers worldwide, according to Justice Department data.
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On Wednesday, a different judge blocked another of Trump's asylum-related orders, this one aimed at restricting asylum claims by people citing gang or domestic violence in their home countries.
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RELATED: Appeals court allows Trump's policy of returning some asylum seekers to Mexico to continue Currently, US Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers conduct the credible fear interview, wherein officers will decide whether an individual has a "credible fear of persecution" that could make them eligible for asylum in the United States.
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The Washington Post first reported that asylum officers have been instructed to look for discrepancies between what asylum seekers tell border agents and what they tell asylum officers in interviews about why they want to come to the United States, teeing up challenges of those applicants claims of credible fear of returning home.
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On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that the administration would sign an agreement with the incoming government of Mexico that would force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico after starting the asylum process — changing the current practice of allowing them into the US to wait for their asylum claims to be heard.
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Asylum bars are only considered at the end of the process — after an entrant has presented herself for asylum, gone through a screening interview with an asylum officer to determine if she has a "credible fear" of persecution, and waited the months or years for her case to be heard by a judge.
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The rule from the departments of Justice and Homeland Security would prohibit migrants who have resided or "transited en route" in a third country from seeking asylum in the US, therefore barring migrants traveling through Mexico from being able to claim asylum and as a result, drastically limit who's eligible for asylum.
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But Sessions went beyond that in articulating general principles by which asylum claims ought to be judged — both by immigration judges and by asylum officers (even though the latter are not part of the Department of Justice), and at both the final review of an asylum case and the initial credible fear screening.
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The U.S. has an agreement with Mexico that Central American asylum-seekers must wait in Mexico until their court date in the U.S. The Trump administration has made several efforts to discourage asylum-seekers from entering U.S., including making applicants ineligible if they pass through another country without asking for asylum there.
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Asylum seekers are required, under European Union law, to seek asylum in the first country in the bloc that they enter, but many try to leave the Mediterranean nations where they arrive from Turkey and North Africa and travel north in search of relatives or countries with more advanced asylum and integration systems.
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Read more: Immigrants have rights when ICE comes to arrest them, but experts warn this only goes so farUnder the ban, asylum seekers who have passed through other countries on their way to the US are only eligible for asylum in the US if they have been denied asylum in a third country.
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The proposal to send asylum seekers to Guatemala is part of the Trump administration's overall push to block these petitioners from entering the United States, policies that include "metering" asylum requests at border ports of entry and sending tens of thousands of people back to Mexico to await resolution on their asylum cases.
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The document makes clear that Italy wants changes to the so-called Dublin regulation, which sets out EU rules for handling asylum seekers and migrants coming to the EU. The rules now say that the country where the asylum seeker enters the EU is responsible for handling his or her asylum request.
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Even as Mr. Trump has sought in recent days to limit who can apply for asylum, and to expand indefinite detention for asylum seekers, his administration has with little public notice been carrying out a crackdown on people who asked for asylum, did not receive it and remained in the United States.
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The "recommended approvals" for affirmative asylum — protection sought from asylum-seekers away from the border and within a year of entry to the US — have been issued in the past to those whose cases are deemed worthy of an asylum grant but whose background investigations or other matters have not been fully approved.
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U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar had issued a nationwide injunction in July blocking the rule, which would make most asylum-seekers who pass through another country before reaching the U.S. ineligible for asylum, with exceptions for victims of trafficking and migrants who have been denied asylum in the countries they traveled through.
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Trump also questioned why asylum seekers would flock to an area where tear gas was being deployed, and suggested some asylum seekers grabbed children who weren't their own because they thought it would help their case for asylum: "...They think they will have a certain status by having a child," Trump said.
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The problem is that when asylum seekers try to follow the law by presenting themselves at official border crossings to ask for asylum, rather than crossing into the US illegally and presenting their asylum claim to the Border Patrol agent who picks them up, they're often being told they can't come in.
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It argues that because they and other asylum seekers are on US soil, the government is required under the Immigration and Nationality Act to at least grant them an asylum hearing.
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WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Trump administration unveiled new rules on Thursday to sharply limit migrant asylum claims by barring individuals who cross the U.S. southern border illegally from seeking asylum.
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Most migrants from these countries are already refused asylum: last year only 3.8 percent of Moroccan asylum applications were accepted compared with 0.8 percent from Tunisians and 2.7 percent from Algerians.
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MRI, which supports eight asylum seekers and refugees with safe housing, says much more is needed and aims to provide safe housing for more than 150 LGBTi asylum seekers by 2019.
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Last month, a young transgender woman from Central America applied for asylum in the US. Unlike thousands of others requesting asylum at the US-Mexico border, this person was especially fortunate.
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At the same press conference, officials noted that the number of migrants seeking asylum in Mexico has increased dramatically, with some 80,000 asylum applications expected by the end of this year.
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Asylum-seekers are then kept in detention or released into the U.S. until their asylum cases are resolved — which often takes months if not years, according to the American Immigration Council.
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"To give you a one-word answer: disaster," said Polly Laurelchild-Hertig, executive director of the LGBT Asylum Support Task Force, which connects asylum seekers with housing, medical and legal support.
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The suspect presented himself at the Dutch asylum seekers' center earlier this month, but had already been flagged by German authorities after briefly registering as an asylum seeker there in 2015.
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The last part of the asylum crackdown, as identified to Axios, involves giving fewer work permits to asylum seekers while they are waiting for their cases to be approved or denied.
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"The court correctly decided that decades of US asylum law prevent this administration from attempting to deny wholesale, asylum protections through this arbitrary and hasty regulation," Azmy said in a statement.
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The first change, announced on July 19973th, barred foreign nationals from seeking asylum at America's border with Mexico unless they had first applied for, and been denied, asylum in another country.
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The administration has also proposed a rule that would bar people from getting asylum if they crossed into the U.S. between points of entry, which would drastically change the asylum process.
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This treatment goes against U.N. Refugee Agency guidelines that say children have the right to remain united with their parents, and that asylum-seekers have a legal right to claim asylum.
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Combining data on grants of asylum and refugee resettlement, America formally approved around 22003,22014 requests in the most recent year for which data is available (22015,212 refugees and 22016,0003 asylum-seekers).
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The launch of the policy in January in San Diego at the nation's busiest border crossing marked an unprecedented change to the U.S. asylum system, government officials and asylum experts said.
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Lawyers and rights activists say neither Mexico or Guatemala offer adequate conditions to provide safe harbor for many asylum-seekers, or strong enough institutions to process large numbers of asylum claims.
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About 10,000 people are waiting in Mexican border towns to make asylum claims, as a U.S. practice called "metering" limits the number of asylum claims at ports of entry each day.
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And rights groups say some fences deny asylum-seekers the chance to seek shelter, even though European law states that everyone has the right to a fair and efficient asylum procedure.
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Indeed, in FY2016 the asylum division of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will conduct more than 65,000 credible fear interviews, which determine whether an individual establishes threshold eligibility for asylum.
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Expedited removal proceedings are supposed to prevent aliens from getting into the country for asylum hearing on the basis of asylum claims that do not have a significant chance of success.
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Not only will new applicants be denied asylum status, but those living here legally while waiting for a final decision on asylum originally processed under existing policy may well be expelled.
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In reviewing Couch's decision, Sessions invited interested parties to comment on the notion of whether being the victim of a crime can count for asylum, a complicated aspect of asylum law.
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Over the last year, sweeping legislative changes have made it virtually impossible for migrants to achieve refugee status in the country, weakened asylum safeguards and unjustifiably criminalized immigrants and asylum seekers.
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After the arrival of 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015 - the most in Europe in relation to the country's population of 10 million - the government suspended many of its liberal asylum policies.
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Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif.) asked Nielsen whether asylum-seekers were ever turned away from ports of entry by Customs and Border Protection agents, which would be illegal under asylum laws.
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Lawyers say the use of the term "illegal" in relation to asylum seekers who arrive by boat is an invention of the government, as it's not an offense to seek asylum.
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Trump said his administration is finalizing an executive action that would limit asylum claims to legal ports of entry, claiming migrants frequently abuse the system by fabricating their need for asylum.
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"I started Asylum because, to me, it felt like something that God really wanted to happen," Billie explained after the Asylum meeting, over a cup of tea in a busy cafe.
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But if that migrant declares a fear of return to her home country or a desire to seek asylum, she has a right to a screening interview with an asylum officer.
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Meanwhile, in the US, we resettled about 97,000 refugees in 2016 and, though final asylum numbers are not yet available, asylum grants will likely come in at around 20,000 to 30,000.
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For example if you are applying for asylum and fall under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles Asylum Office, you may have to wait more than four years for an interview.
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For years, most migrants seeking asylum in the United States needed only to show up at a port of entry to begin the asylum process, and there was usually no delay.
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Some of those arriving today will have a strong legal case to stay under international refugee treaties and federal asylum laws, but most won't have a formal asylum hearing until 2021.
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"Asylum adjudications are taking years when they really should occur within a month" Trump has railed against asylum seekers, saying they skip their court hearings and then stay in the country.
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Under the Trump administration's family separation policy, a parent who wanted to seek asylum in the US had one chance: to pass a "credible fear" screening interview with an asylum office.
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Asylum seekers don't immediately know how their experiences fit into the framework of protections set up by US asylum law: how to articulate membership in a "particular social group," for example.
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In the end, to preserve her coalition, Ms. Merkel agreed with Mr. Seehofer to speed up asylum procedures and turn back asylum seekers who are already registered in other European countries.
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The administration took additional steps last year to make it harder to apply for asylum, signing a deal with Guatemala to resettle asylum seekers there, instead of in the United States.
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Mr. Booker used his role as a senator to assist the people seeking asylum and to experience the uncertainty and logistical challenges of the Trump administration's tamping down on asylum claims.
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Our reporter visited an asylum camp where people like Maria Sam, above, had lost count of her 113-year-old son's seizures in the nearly three months since applying for asylum.
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A "resource guide" on Guatemala was given to asylum officers as part of materials to implement a controversial policy to deport adult asylum-seekers from El Salvador and Honduras to Guatemala.
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Both nations signed asylum cooperation agreements, agreeing to be "safe third countries" — those who pass through, claiming to be fleeing persecution in their home countries, must first ask for asylum there.
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The policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols program, which has forced more than 19403,21940 asylum-seekers back into Mexico while their asylum case is adjudicated by an immigration judge.
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READ: How Trump is winning the war on asylum-seekers Around 42,000 migrants have been sent to Mexico to wait while their asylum claims are processed, according to a CBP estimate.
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The Russian government granted him asylum soon after and, after receiving a three-year extension to his leave to remain in Russia, the country extended his asylum in 2017 until 2020.
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In 2017, the most recent year for which asylum is available, the US granted asylum to 19513,471 migrants from El Salvador, 2,954 from Guatemala, 2,048 from Honduras, and 1,048 from Mexico.
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In at least one case, asylum seekers were physically prevented from stepping on US soil — which would have given them the legal right to seek asylum at the port of entry.
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In the US and Canada, it will help fill in asylum applications, while in the UK — where you have to apply in person — it assists in filling out asylum support forms.
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" The UN meanwhile instructed that countries in the region should "inform refugees and asylum seekers of their procedures, including clear details on the criteria for access to admission, asylum or return.
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He said Jabbateh had failed to disclose his Liberian crimes when he applied for asylum in December 1998 and when he was interviewed by an immigration asylum officer in January 1999.
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Trump said his team was preparing an executive action that would restrict asylum claims to legal ports of entry, preventing undocumented migrants from claiming asylum if caught crossing the border illegally.
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The administration is convinced asylum seekers aren't just getting lost in the system — they're deliberately disappearing because they know that if they continued to pursue asylum, their claims wouldn't get approved.
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Most asylum-seekers pass initial screenings, but most of those still ultimately lose their cases — but asylum-seekers who have lawyers are much, much more likely to have their cases approved.
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They are not asylum seekers — they are publicity seekers.
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Over the past year, the Trump administration has rolled out a series of policies that would all but shut down asylum claims along the US-Mexico border -- forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for a court date; narrowing who can apply for asylum; delaying work permits for those let into the United States; signing agreements to send back to Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador asylum seekers who passed through those countries on their way north; and more.
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Washington (CNN)The US signed an asylum agreement Friday afternoon with Guatemala that could limit the ability of some Central American migrants to claim asylum in the US. The agreement, which President Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office, commits Guatemala to extend asylum to migrants who seek it when they're moving through the country.
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The justices' decision effectively reinstated a Trump administration rule that prevents migrants from applying for asylum if they passed through another country other than their own before arriving in the US. That means that asylum seekers from any country but Mexico will now be ineligible for asylum if they show up at the southern border.
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Asylum-seekers currently are mostly distributed to small asylum homes across the country, though some states have already introduced centers where hundreds of applicants need to stay for months while awaiting decisions.
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Earlier on Friday, Trump signed a deal alongside Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales that will direct Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States to first apply for asylum in Guatemala instead.
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For decades, someone coming to the US without papers to seek asylum has been given a screening interview with an asylum officer to examine their fear of returning to their home countries.
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Under MPP, though, migrants are automatically allowed to apply for asylum before a judge in the US — the asylum officer just determines whether they are sent back to Mexico in the meantime.
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Trying to curb the flow of Central American asylum seekers, the administration has been sending more people back to Mexico to wait for their asylum claims to be heard by U.S. courts.
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One US asylum officer, who could not talk about policy publicly, said the confrontation likely was the result of the US's inability or unwillingness to process asylum claims at the border daily.
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Last month the country's National Assembly passed a measure that would speed up the deportation process for failed asylum seekers and extend the length of time failed asylum seekers can be detained.
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Some migrants I've spoken to believed you could get asylum simply by having a relative in the US — or that if you had no family in the US, you couldn't get asylum.
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Trump and DHS officials say that "legitimate" asylum seekers ought to have no reason to enter illegally, and even attempted to ban people who crossed between ports of entry from seeking asylum.
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Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), sent an email last month suggesting that asylum officers should be tougher in their initial screenings of asylum seekers, Buzzfeed reported.
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The asylum rule has exceptions for those who applied for asylum protection in a third country and were denied it, and those who qualify as victims of a "severe form of trafficking."
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In some cases, the parent may decide they want their child to stay in the United States to pursue their own asylum claim, or the child may themselves choose to seek asylum.
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European Union countries that refuse to accept refugees under new asylum plans face €250,000 ($285,000) fines in "solidarity contributions" for each asylum-seeker rejected, under new rules announced by the European Commission.
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A U.S. Supreme Court decision last month allowed the Trump administration to reject asylum for anyone who passed through a third country, such as Mexico, and did not apply for asylum there.
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They looked at asylum applications into the European Union and the weather in people's country of origin and found that as temperatures rose there, so did the number of people seeking asylum.
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Other rules guaranteed minimum reception standards for asylum-seekers across the EU and set out which country was responsible for each asylum claim (usually the first one a migrant sets foot in).
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Today, the first screening of asylum seekers at the border often falls to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who attempt to separate out candidates for asylum and other forms of protection.
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The immigration judge found Sesay eligible for asylum but refused to grant his application because asylum would entitle him to enter the United States and his entry was barred by Clinton's proclamation.
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Asylum claims based on fears of gang or domestic violence will immediately be rejected, according to new guidance given to officers who interview asylum-seekers at US borders and evaluate refugee applications.
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First, the administration issued a new — and blatantly illegal — rule declaring asylum seekers ineligible to petition for U.S. asylum if they had passed through any country en route to the United States.
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The administration has sent more than a thousand asylum-seekers, many from Central America, back to Mexico as their asylum claims make their way through the U.S.'s backed-up immigration system.
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Many of the families have had no access to a lawyer in their asylum proceedings, so they might have failed to accurately present their cases while actually qualifying for asylum, she added.
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Asylum seekers regularly wait five years or more for their cases to be heard, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had a backlog of 311,000 pending asylum cases as of Jan. 21.
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Human rights groups have also criticised a new framework to speed up the processing of asylum requests as a "rushed" attempt that would impede access to a fair asylum process for refugees.
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That assistance, the San Diego lawsuit said, had long included helping asylum seekers locate contact information for relatives residing in the U.S. and facilitating phone calls between asylum seekers and those relatives.
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The administration has said that it wants to close the gap between an initial asylum screening that most people pass and a final decision on asylum that most people do not win.
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Due to a court backlog of over 400,000 asylum claims, many asylum seekers live in the United States for years before their court date or do not show up for their hearing.
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Asylum dispute: The British Home Office cited biblical verses about vengeance to deny asylum to an Iranian who said he had converted from Islam to Christianity because it was a "peaceful" religion.
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An asylum-seeker may not get their initial screening interview, which determines whether they'll be allowed to file an asylum application and get a hearing, until after they've been prosecuted and convicted.
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But there have been reports of people arriving at the ports of entry asking for asylum and being taken into custody, and some of the designated ports are not accepting asylum claims.
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Mexico has repeatedly rejected the idea of acting as a safe third country, which would mean that U.S.-bound asylum seekers traveling via Mexico would have to first claim asylum in Mexico.
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Since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, the number of asylum-seekers coming from the U.S. has risen—from February 2017 to December 2019, we saw just over 54,000 asylum-seekers.
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On court rulings: Cuccinelli praised the Supreme Court's latest ruling, which allows immigration officials to deny asylum to migrants who do not apply for asylum first in a country they've travelled through.
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Last year, the administration struck accords with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador paving the way for the US to send asylum seekers to the Northern Triangle countries to apply for asylum there.
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Under the program, Mexican asylum-seekers detained by Border Patrol agents are given an initial screening, called a credible fear interview, by US Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers within 48 hours.
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"It is necessary to simplify and expand the access to the asylum procedure to all who want to seek asylum in Bosnia," said Neven Crvenkovic, a spokesman for the UNHCR regional office.
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Guatemala signed a safe-third-country agreement with America, under which asylum-seekers passing through the Central American country would have to apply for asylum there rather than in the United States.
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In Tijuana, south of the California city of San Diego, more than 50 asylum seekers marched to the port of entry, singing about winning asylum and helping one another carry their luggage.
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But this is twinned with an aggressive effort to deport economic migrants ineligible for asylum and return asylum seekers — as is the European Union rule — to the first European country they entered.
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Under the policy, Hondurans and Salvadorans would have to apply for — and be denied — asylum in Guatemala or Mexico before they would be eligible to apply for asylum in the United States.
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Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro on Monday escorted a dozen asylum seekers across the U.S.-Mexico border in hopes of having their asylum requests processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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The Trump administration has tried to curb the flow of asylum seekers by rolling out a series of policies that limit who's eligible for asylum in the US, including the July rule.
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According to FitzGerald, rich democracies employ a range of "remote control" methods in order to prevent asylum seekers from reaching their territory, effectively blocking their asylum claims before they can make them.
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"If they enter the United States across the boundary line at the port of entry and they claim asylum, we would be bound to hear that asylum claim," Howe told the committee.
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Wednesday's decision allows the administration to move forward with a rule that limits asylum for some and in effect, send thousands of Central American migrants back to Mexico to apply for asylum.
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Since Trump halted the foreign assistance, the U.S. has negotiated asylum agreements with the three Northern Triangle countries that would require those nations to accept asylum seekers who pass through their territory.
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Asylum for Saudi teen: Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18, who fled what she said was an abusive family in Saudi Arabia, arrived in Toronto, where she was granted asylum by the Canadian government.
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He said Jabbateh had failed to disclose his Liberian crimes when he applied for U.S. asylum in December 1998 and when he was interviewed by an immigration asylum officer in January 1999.
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Migrants need to explicitly ask for asylum or say they fear for their life or safety to trigger what's known as a credible fear interview — the first step in the asylum process.
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US asylum laws "were never intended to provide asylum to all those who fear generalized violence, crime, personal vendettas, or a lack of job prospects," Sessions argued in the October 2017 speech.
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That meant interviewees couldn't give detailed enough answers to make a persuasive case to stay in the US. Part of an asylum screening is determining whether a migrant would be protected from persecutors by law enforcement; asylum officers know that Mexican police are often compromised or indifferent, but asylum seekers who've barely spent time in Mexico often do not.
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Jeffrey Chase, a former immigration judge, said that the numbers can also be attributed to the fact that many asylum cases in recent years don't fall within the classic asylum formula that was developed as a response to World War II. In his decisions, Sessions cut the kinds of arguments individuals could make to potentially gain asylum.
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Officials routinely argue that only 10 to 20153 percent of Central American asylum applicants are ultimately given asylum by a judge, using it as evidence not only that the remaining 85 to 90 percent aren't ultimately eligible for asylum but that many or most of them were lying their way into the US the whole time.
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The rule, which was implemented earlier this month from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, would prohibit migrants who have resided or "transited en route" in a third country from seeking asylum in the US, therefore barring migrants traveling through Mexico from being able to claim asylum, and, as a result, would drastically limit who's eligible for asylum.
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It would mean migrants who pass through Guatemala would apply for asylum there, rather than continuing on to the US, and it would likely prevent some migrants from applying for asylum in the US. The US is working to make sure there would be sufficient protections in place for people who'd claim asylum in Guatemala, an official said.
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The Trump administration is currently fighting in court to reinstate its asylum ban, which would prevent anyone caught crossing illegally from applying for asylum in the US. A federal judge put that ban put on hold after nine days — in part because the judge blamed the US for making it so difficult for asylum seekers to cross legally.
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Cutting asylum numbers But the administration continues to pursue aggressive measures to cut the number of asylum seekers gaining entry to the US. Under new guidance given last week to the officers who interview asylum seekers at the US borders and evaluate refugee applications, claims based on fear of gang and domestic violence will be immediately rejected.
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Asylum protection, which was born out of the Refugee Convention, is a human right and, therefore, it has never been contingent on paying a fee in the U.S. Asylum-seekers already have overcome overwhelming odds as they fight for their lives; putting a price tag on seeking asylum will make protection out of reach for many.
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In an effort to send a "you're not welcome" message, the administration has tried a series of strategies: prosecuting everyone who crosses illegally, taking their children from them, tightening asylum standards, slowing down the number of people allowed to apply for asylum each day, forcing asylum applicants to remain in Mexico while they wait for court dates.
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The acting secretary recently canceled a trip to London to travel to Guatemala to work on a new asylum deal that would return most migrants to Guatemala if they did not try to seek asylum there before journeying to the US. At the end of July, Trump, standing behind McAleenan announced the asylum deal in the Oval Office.
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The rule, which was issued from the departments of Justice and Homeland Security in July, would prohibit migrants who have resided in or traveled through a third country from seeking asylum in the US, therefore barring migrants traveling through Mexico from being able to claim asylum and as a result, drastically limit who's eligible for asylum.
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The Trump administration says the plan to deport asylum-seekers to Guatemala is a key element in its strategy to deter migration at the border and restrict asylum-seekers from entering the US. Advocates and asylum officers previously told BuzzFeed News that the unprecedented plan lacks legality and organization and will lead to immigrants being placed in dangerous circumstances.
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" Last month, the Los Angeles Times reported that the U.S. was planning to send asylum-seekers to Honduras, regardless of whether they were from there, to prevent them from making claims to stay in the U.S. A DHS spokesperson told The Hill at the time that the U.S. "does not forcibly remove asylum-seekers to Guatemala to seek asylum.
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In the past year alone, the administration has attempted to ban asylum for those who crossed the border without authorization and forced asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico as their cases were processed in the US. In recent months, the administration pushed through a regulation that banned asylum for those who traveled through Mexico before reaching the US border.
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Asylum seekers could be detained and make their case before an immigration judge, which would require proving that they had unsuccessfully sought asylum in another country prior to their arrival in the US. But that could create a huge backlog in the immigration courts because asylum seekers whose claims are denied will be more likely to appeal, Vasquez said.
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The administration's latest tactic in its war to end asylum for Central Americans is to reinterpret asylum law to eliminate the types of claims brought by people from this part of the world.
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Seehofer, whose party faces a state election in the fall, has threatened to turn away at the borders migrants whose asylum requests Germany already rejected or who already sought asylum elsewhere in Europe.
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But asylum cases are rarely successful; just 11 percent of Guatemalans who claimed asylum immediately upon entering the U.S. won their cases in 2016, according to data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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Asylum seekers now face a reality in which they or their family members are living in conditions that put their lives at risk before being allowed to request asylum in the United States.
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After they register with Greek authorities for reunification, Greece's asylum service has three months to contact the country that the individual's family is in, and ask them to take over the asylum application.
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Crimes like the sexual assaults of women in Germany on New Year's Eve, in which the authorities said asylum seekers were involved, led Chancellor Angela Merkel to propose tougher laws regulating asylum seekers.
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Once the accord is enforced, the United States will begin returning asylum seekers who traveled through Guatemala back to that country, where they can choose to apply for asylum or to return home.
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"They also told us we weren't going to be allowed to ask for asylum yesterday because you were coming," Victor, a 14-year-old asylum-seeker said to some members of the caravan.
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There, they receive legal counsel and, according to Galvan, a high percentage are accepted into asylum proceedings—though she does not know of a single case where the person was actually granted asylum.
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Since the number of asylum seekers started to rise in 2011, Bavaria has raised the age for compulsory education for asylum seekers and refugees to 21, against 18 in the other 15 states.
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Upon arrival, asylum seekers were bussed to shelters, while those not seeking asylum were given an expulsion order requiring them to leave the country within seven days, and then sent on their way.
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Read: Migrants in Tijuana face barbed wire, long lines, and dim hopes of ever claiming asylum The rejection of the children represents an even tougher stance in the U.S.' position toward asylum seekers.
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Trump's Friday order means that migrants will have to present themselves at U.S. ports of entry to qualify for asylum and follow other rules unveiled on Thursday that seek to limit asylum claims.
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Case in point: The president's new demand for Congress on asylum law came out of the blue; Pelosi and Trump didn't discuss asylum law on their Friday night call, the Democratic aide said.
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"It effectively ends asylum for anyone applying at the southern border who's not Mexican and hasn't been denied an asylum application," Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, told Vox.
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Neither speaks English; the older brother, who was granted asylum, works as a prep cook to support the younger one, who attends a nearby high school and whose asylum case is still pending.
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Germany, which has registered more than a million would be asylum-seekers since 2015, offers assisted returns to those unlikely to qualify for international protection in exchange for them dropping their asylum requests.
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The government would also begin charging asylum seekers $50 for applications and $490 for work permits, a move that would make the United States one of four countries to charge people for asylum.
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"I have a number of serious concerns about migration and asylum policies in this country, including the so-called offshore processing regime and prolonged mandatory detention of refugees and asylum seekers," she said.
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She also called for common asylum policies for immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and beyond, as well as European border police forces and a pan-European migration agency to assess asylum requests.
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The main evidentiary difference between asylum and withholding is that asylum just requires a well-founded fear of persecution, and withholding requires the applicant to establish that persecution is more likely than not.
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The administration overturned asylum protections for domestic violence and gang violence victims, which could prevent the tens and thousands of people who apply for asylum each year from staying in the United States.
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The new regulation would overhaul the existing asylum system, and would add rules making it extremely difficult for Central Americans to successfully apply for asylum in the United States, according to the report.
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The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced Monday that asylum seekers who pass through another country before reaching the United States will be ineligible for asylum when they reach the southern border.
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The rule, which the departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced earlier in July, would disqualify any asylum-seekers passing through another country on their way to the U.S. from applying for asylum.
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This year, more than 24,000 Nicaraguans have formally expressed a desire to apply for asylum in Costa Rica, a sharp increase over last year, when about 6,300 people from all nations sought asylum.
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U.S. law already directs the Justice Department to finish asylum cases within six months, but with a backlog of more than 800,000 cases, asylum claims often take years to come to a conclusion.
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The proposed policy, part of a Trump administration strategy to ease the burden on the clogged American asylum system, would represent a radical shift from the way that the asylum system now works.
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"Given the abuses of the asylum system right now, I would always prefer to process asylum seekers outside of the United States," Barr said during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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But most of the people seeking asylum at the Adelanto Detention Facility followed the law to a T. They presented themselves at ports of entry on our southern border and asked for asylum.
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In July, the Trump administration brokered an agreement with the Guatemalan government, allowing U.S. immigration officials to send migrants requesting asylum at the U.S.-Mexican border to apply for asylum in Guatemala instead.
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The agreement marked a major shift in US asylum policy, as it allowed the US to send migrants who may have a legitimate claim of asylum to another country to make their case.
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Specifically, the rule would add a $50 fee for those looking to apply for affirmative asylum applications filed from within the US. There is currently no fee to enter an "affirmative asylum" application.
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If increasing the number of asylum officers and immigration judges along the border went hand-in-glove with border security resources, there would not be a bottleneck of asylum seekers awaiting their hearings.
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For now, people seeking asylum in the US become eligible for work permits 3653 days after filing their asylum applications, and US Citizenship and Immigration Services has 30 days to process those permits.
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End prosecutions of asylum seekers Congress should pass a law clarifying that it is unlawful to prosecute asylum seekers for entering the U.S. without documents, so-called ''illegal entry" or "illegal re-entry.
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But it will not apply to Mexican asylum seekers who might risk harm if returned to Mexico, the very place where they are claiming fear of persecution as grounds for their asylum claim.
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A single asylum case, for example, could involve obtaining testimony and documents from a traumatized victim of abuse, a social worker, immigration agents, and authorities and witnesses in an asylum seeker's home country.
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In the meantime, the government often releases an asylum seeker from detention — either on its own volition or because a judge has ordered the government to allow the asylum seeker to post bond.
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In a couple of incidents in June, a Customs and Border Protection agent physically prevented asylum seekers from setting foot on US soil — thus depriving them of the legal ability to claim asylum.
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He received asylum in March and had a residency permit.
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He also said he was not seeking asylum in Belgium.
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Over 460,000 people applied for asylum in Europe in 2013.
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The volunteers swarm the asylum seekers, offering blankets and water.
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He landed in Toronto last Christmas and applied for asylum.
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Germany rejected his asylum request, but did not deport him.
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Asylum reform is stranded on the rocks of national interests.
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She said Espinal is seeking asylum in her congressional district.
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It miscasts individuals seeking asylum at the border as criminals.
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She's young, she's in Arkham Asylum, and she's a mystery.
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Others will eschew asylum and try crossing into America undetected.
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Now, despite their request for asylum, the family is scattered.
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But a majority of applications for U.S. asylum are denied.
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Even then, though, they still won't be eligible for asylum.
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In return, the US must expedite the asylum adjudication process.
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The father said he had an asylum interview on Thursday.
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Court records show he went to the U.S. seeking asylum.
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The crazies had taken over the asylum, it felt like.
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Sweden granted asylum to 101,025 refugees from 33 to 2015.
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Both men had dreamed of asylum in the United States.
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S. sought asylum in Australia and eventually got citizenship there.
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Officials said rising asylum claims were stretching US government resources.
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Immigration judges often grant asylum with a simple, spoken ruling.
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Caceres had presented herself for asylum at the border Dec.
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It appears she will indeed be granted asylum in Australia.
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In Sweden alone, 35,000 unaccompanied children requested asylum in 2015.
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Two and a half years later, she was granted asylum.
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When Denise's asylum application was denied, she almost gave up.
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Those denied asylum are generally deported to their home countries.
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The teenager was denied asylum and deported in March 2017.
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If their petitions are denied, asylum seekers can be deported.
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" But right now asylum officers don't simply "accept what's said.
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Instead, he's John Doe, just another patient at Arkham Asylum.
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Camila Díaz Córdova requested asylum in the summer of 2017.
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They're really shutting our borders down for those seeking asylum.
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Once she was on US soil, she asked for asylum.
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Some plan on asking for asylum at a later point.
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Under Trump, asylum application procedures have come under particular scrutiny.
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It's unclear how many of them will ask for asylum.
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This [seeking asylum] is not something people are doing voluntarily.
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Many asylum seekers are looking to escape poverty and violence.
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Go deeper: Reality check: How the U.S. asylum process works
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Most end up staying in Europe despite being denied asylum.
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She also contacted Oretskin, who takes pro bono asylum cases.
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Some make their own way and then apply for asylum.
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For asylum cases, this could mean several months in custody.
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Kirsten Gillibrand: End child separation and reform the asylum process.
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It was not clear whether those rescued had requested asylum.
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He is now seeking asylum there, according to his brother.
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What to watch: Governments are granting asylum to fewer people.
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That doesn't mean they don't also have valid asylum claims.
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The detention center has been housing asylum seekers since 2012.
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Episode 2, naturally, had echoes of Asylum all over it.
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Syrians are the biggest group of asylum applicants in Germany.
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PEOPLE is out to Syfy and Asylum Entertainment for comment.
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The question is what the US does with asylum seekers.
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Moritz Scheyer's recently translated memoir, Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from
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But in practice, do asylum seekers actually have that option?
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ICE documents show Zoila was granted asylum the following year.
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The first asylum seeker was returned to Mexico on Jan.
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Unaccompanied children asylum claims are handled differently than adults are.
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Seemingly untouched for years, the insane asylum was the clincher.
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Greece accepted 12,015 applications for asylum last year, Eurostat said.
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He is waiting for his asylum case to be processed.
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The failed asylum seeker had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
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South Africa rejects 95 percent of asylum applications as unjustified.
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Some asylum seekers said the latest developments gave them hope.
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Venezuelans are the top asylum seekers in the United States.
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French President Emmanuel Macron wants France's asylum process sped up.
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