The asylum seeker is obliged to inform on any means the asylum seeker brings with him or her.
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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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The first asylum seeker was returned to Mexico on Jan.
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The failed asylum seeker had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
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As an asylum seeker, you carry a burden of proof.
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They wouldn't look after me," an asylum seeker, identified as "E.
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One in ten people on the island is an asylum-seeker.
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I'm an asylum seeker but I feel safer here in Britain.
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In immigration court, the asylum seeker is typically the only witness.
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Omid* is a 29-year old gay asylum seeker from Tehran.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said he may have been an asylum-seeker.
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Political debate around Australia's hardline asylum seeker policy has been heated recently.
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Every asylum seeker costs the Italian taxpayer between 40,000 and 50,000 euros.
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The suspected driver, a failed asylum seeker from Uzbekistan, remains in custody.
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Meanwhile, the asylum seeker generally has no right to a public defender.
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Another hugely important aspect is whether the asylum seeker has an attorney.
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"Without representation, the deck is stacked against an asylum seeker," TRAC said.
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Another hugely important factor is whether the asylum seeker has an attorney.
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POTSDAM, Germany (Reuters) - Syrian asylum seeker Alaa Kassab can't believe her luck.
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An asylum seeker grasping a number on a tiny piece of paper.
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He never raises the fact that he was an asylum seeker himself.
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And yes, there is a difference between a refugee and an asylum seeker.
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"I don't want to return to Mexico, your honor," an asylum seeker pleaded.
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Eritrean asylum seeker Birhan in Middlesbrough, a town in the northeast of England.
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Pictures sent to Reuters by an asylum-seeker showed Papua New Guinean officials wearing army fatigues inside the camp on Friday, and a video distributed by advocacy group GetUp showed police armed with sticks pulling an asylum seeker to his feet.
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He subsequently continued his studies in Germany, where he is currently an asylum seeker.
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When the entry is too crowded, the asylum-seeker is told to return later.
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For one thing, it says that the system is stacked against the asylum seeker.
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When an asylum seeker crosses into the US illegally, she commits a federal misdemeanor.
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Australia's wider asylum seeker policy has also attracted international criticism from human rights groups.
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"What naturalization does is provide the asylum seeker another layer of protection," she said.
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Mark DeSaulnier (D-California) -- African asylum seeker and mental health service coordinator Akelo ZukukaRep.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A U.N. investigator into the human rights of migrants arrived in Australia on Tuesday to assess its tough asylum seeker policy, after aborting a visit last year claiming a lack of government assistance and access to asylum seeker detention camps.
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They have been given asylum-seeker status while the agency determines whether they are refugees.
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Kevin Euceda, an asylum-seeker from Honduras, looks into the facility's yard while in detention.
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Bill entrenches secrecy around Australia's asylum seeker regime CNN's Zahra Ullah contributed to this report.
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In 2014, Ms. Y, an asylum seeker, arrived in the Republic of Ireland from abroad.
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An asylum seeker wants the protection and safety that we take for granted in America.
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A 31-year-old asylum seeker from India lights himself and his room on fire.
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The agents alleged that his papers, documenting his status as an asylum seeker, were falsified.
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Weidel has denied that the asylum seeker worked as an employee or received a salary.
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Topics include: • Define and reflect upon the following terms: asylum-seeker, refugee, immigrant, migrant, expatriate.
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That was proposed after a fatal stabbing this year apparently committed by an asylum seeker.
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An asylum-seeker sleeps on a burnt bed on the Samos island, Greece, Oct. 15.
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Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, hijacked a truck on Dec.
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And in November 2018, a transgender Mexican asylum seeker was robbed and assaulted in Tijuana.
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SAN FRANCISCO — I am an asylum seeker from Honduras and a mother of three children.
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Nicaraguan asylum-seeker Valentina, 10 months old, sleeps in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge.
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"They deserve just as every other asylum-seeker to have their asylum claim heard and evaluated."
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ISIS claimed responsibility for the crime, carried out by a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker.
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The profits from the song will go to the Asylum Seeker Support Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
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In one case last October, officials had decided to deport an unidentified asylum-seeker and family.
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Every asylum seeker arriving at Kakuma in the past two decades had passed through that room.
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It said a 17-year-old asylum-seeker had died in a refugee center in Karlshamn.
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The suspect was named as father of four Rakhmat Akilov, an asylum-seeker originally from Uzbekistan.
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It is the fourth death of a refugee or asylum seeker in Australia's offshore detention centers.
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Prior to this year, the Australian government operated a school specifically for the asylum seeker children.
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SWEDEN seems idyllic to Munire, a 19-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker, and her two sisters.
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Amri, a failed asylum seeker also from Tunisia, was shot dead in Italy on Dec. 23.
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Three months on, the Afghani asylum-seeker is studying at one of France's most prestigious universities.
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The same month, Johana Medina Leon, an asylum seeker from El Salvador, died in ICE detention.
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"In the asylum process, the asylum seeker must make his reason for flight credible," he said.
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When Mr. Coello was taken to the Krome detention center, another asylum seeker was already there.
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Ziyawudun's asylum-seeker status in Kazakhstan will likely last until mid-May, according to her lawyer.
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The odds of an asylum-seeker winning their case increase exponentially if they have an attorney.
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In one instance, border agents didn't escort a Nicaraguan asylum-seeker to her 7:30 a.m.
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On Wednesday, a High Court decision ruled the government's strict asylum seeker policy is legally sound.
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If, and only if, the asylum seeker is granted refugee status, then the resettlement process begins.
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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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"In my view, the point has been reached when it cannot be said that the legitimate differences between an asylum seeker and a citizen can continue to justify the exclusion of an asylum seeker from the possibility of employment," Justice Donal O'Donnell said in the judgment.
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Police initially arrested a Pakistani asylum-seeker near the scene, but released him without charge on Tuesday.
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Spiegel Online reported that he was an asylum seeker but the prosecutor's office declined to confirm that.
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An asylum seeker could ostensibly come and stay at Schloss Heinrichshorst, but international protection couldn't be guaranteed.
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If an asylum seeker enters the US illegally, she'll be referred for prosecution and put in jail.
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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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Many living in the camps have been waiting years for a decision on their asylum seeker status.
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The models' identities can't be disclosed due to the sensitive, precarious status of being an asylum-seeker.
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He was tired of being an asylum seeker, he said, of getting dirty looks on the street.
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Damage One asylum seeker at the facility, Walid Zazai, tweeting from the camp, alleged men were beaten.
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These tasks are challenging for the most skilled attorney, and especially so for an unrepresented asylum seeker.
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An asylum seeker from Brazil at the center of an ACLU legal case appeared alongside her son.
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In late August, a 35-year-old local man was stabbed to death by an asylum seeker.
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Susanna was not the first German teenager to be murdered by an asylum seeker in recent years.
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"We aren't living here, we're just surviving," Honduran asylum-seeker Elmer Garcia, 26, told the Associated Press.
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Snapshot: Above, a Syrian asylum seeker at a migrant camp in the Turkish-controlled part of Cyprus.
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In 1994 the first asylum-seeker won sanctuary on the basis of fearing persecution over sexual orientation.
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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 ACLU's lawsuit argues that U.S. law establishes that an asylum-seeker can only be required to seek protection in another country under two conditions: when the United States has a "safe third country" agreement in place, or when the asylum-seeker has firmly resettled in another country.
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"Some of them are afraid of us," said Ahmed Ramzi al-Bayati, 22, an asylum seeker from Iraq.
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People were horrified by this photo of a 2-year-old asylum-seeker being stopped at the border.
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During a week in September, no asylum seeker was taken in at the main port in Nogales, Arizona.
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"He used to speak about his frustration," said his fellow asylum-seeker, 18-year-old Afghan Mohsen Naghawi.
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So I guess they must have thought that I was an asylum seeker and did not speak German.
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"Together we did it!" tweeted Kon Karapanagiotidis, chief executive of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, after Dutton's announcement.
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"They called on members to hunt an asylum seeker in posts on Facebook," said police spokesman Ernest Zinsmeyer.
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Turnbull advised he would not comment on particular cases and instead spoke broadly of Australia's asylum seeker policy.
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"Hodan is a Somali asylum seeker who was transferred to Nauru in November 2013," activist Ian Rintoul says.
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It was the nation's second major act of violence carried out by an asylum seeker in a week.
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Alemu came to the Netherlands as an asylum seeker in 1990 and had been in custody since 2015.
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Sajjad said he was still awaiting a response, as is 44-year-old Sudanese asylum-seeker Khalid Mansour.
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Jacob, the grandchild of an asylum seeker, needs to know why it's wrong to tear refugee families apart.
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Dunia, an asylum-seeker from Honduras, is reunited with her 5-year-old son, Wilman, in Brownsville, Texas.
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On our podcast "The Daily," we talk to one asylum seeker from West Africa, who fled domestic violence.
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Guatemalan asylum-seeker Miguel poses for a photo at a migrant shelter where he lives in Reynosa, Mexico.
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Nevertheless, each crime involving a migrant or asylum seeker has become a fresh occasion for national hand-wringing.
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Solomon Gebreyohans, Eritrean asylum seeker, Tel Aviv Like thousands before him, Solomon Gebreyohans, 29, fled dictatorship in Eritrea.
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The suit argues that U.S. law establishes that an asylum-seeker can only be required to seek protection in another country under two conditions: when the United States has a "safe third country" agreement in place with that state, or when the asylum-seeker has firmly resettled in another country.
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A U.N. report last year also criticized Nauru for its failure to protect asylum seeker children from sexual abuse.
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Irani Garcia Zacarias is a Guatemalan asylum-seeker and father of two young girls currently living in San Francisco.
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Also, people are horrified by this photo of a 2-year-old asylum-seeker being stopped at the border.
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Sweden, unlike Austria, requires an expert in LGBT issues to be present when a gay asylum-seeker is questioned.
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String of incidents In July a Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a music festival in Ansbach, Bavaria.
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Finnish authorities arrested a suspect, a Moroccan asylum-seeker, and are treating the incident as Finland's first terrorist attack.
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His comments come after the hospital issued a statement Sunday saying an asylum seeker claim was still being considered.
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The deaths followed reports of a 16-year-old Syrian asylum seeker held in solitary confinement for three weeks.
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Police said the gunman had lived in Germany for a number of years and was not an asylum seeker.
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In 2013, the government announced that no asylum seeker who arrived by boat would ever be settled in Australia.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sami, an intersex asylum seeker in Britain, used to be gripped with fear at bedtime.
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The 63-year-old was born in Ethiopia and came to the Netherlands as an asylum seeker in 1990.
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An asylum seeker on Manus posts images of an X-ray showing a man who swallowed a nail clipper.
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In one two-year stretch, Judge Davis ordered the deportation of every single asylum seeker who entered his courtroom.
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Mr. Alemu arrived in the Netherlands as an asylum seeker in 1990 and had been in custody since 2015.
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In 2014, an Iranian asylum seeker detained at Manus Island died after developing severe sepsis from a leg infection.
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"I've been waiting in Juarez for ten months," said one Cuban asylum seeker, who declined to give his name.
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Guatemalan asylum seeker Biviana, 20, blows the neck of her one-year old daughter Maylin, which has a rash.
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The claims by an asylum seeker in Australia couldn't be independently verified, but Western officials are treating them seriously.
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During the turmoil, a security guard shot Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean asylum-seeker, apparently believing he was an assailant.
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Beijing has similarly dismissed the case that emerged last week, which involves a young asylum seeker named Wang Liqiang.
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On Friday, a failed asylum seeker killed one person and injured six others in the northern city of Hamburg.
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" Jana Favero, a director at the Asylum Seeker Resource Center, called the vote a "tipping point as a country.
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" The sticker also features an asylum-seeker being choked by the tear gas while carrying a sign reading "Amnesty.
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"That means the exemption to that section would apply to virtually every asylum seeker at the border," he said.
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"We didn't receive a single asylum seeker during the refugee crisis," Themar mayor Hubert Böse proudly told Spiegel Online.
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The student had known that the soldier had used a false identity to register as an asylum seeker, she said.
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Its tough asylum seeker policy, which includes mandatory detention for people arriving by boat, is a hot-button political issue.
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Decisions to send the asylum seeker back to Mexico, on the other hand, don't appear to get reviewed at all.
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The Swedish government could not immediately be reached for comment, and the fate of the Afghan asylum seeker was unclear.
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An asylum-seeker had been stabbed at a shelter in northeast Rome during a confrontation with local residents on Aug.
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Asylum-seeker Maydi wears a tracking device under her clothes as she waits to board a bus in McAllen, Texas.
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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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Unfortunately, the activist told the Guardian she believes the asylum seeker was probably taken to Stockholm and deported from there.
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The asylum seeker was removed from the plane, according to Swedavia, the company that runs the Landvetter Airport in Gothenberg.
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The gunman was not an asylum-seeker, or even an immigrant: he was born and raised in Munich, police said.
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That means 1 in every 113 people on the planet is now a refugee, asylum-seeker or internally displaced person.
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Mirian G., an asylum seeker from Honduras, was separated from her 18-month-old child for more than two months.
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Failed asylum seeker Anis Amir killed 12 people in Berlin last year by driving a truck into a Christmas market.
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Yolany Padilla, an asylum seeker from Honduras, was reunited with her 6-year-old son in Seattle on Saturday afternoon.
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"Usually there are three-plus hours of testimony from doctors, psychologists, the asylum seeker giving a detailed account," Harris said.
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"This is fantastic wonderful news," Pamela Curr, an advocate at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre said in an emailed statement.
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In a migrant camp in the Serbian capital of Belgrade, Syrian asylum-seeker Mustafa Othman complains of little to do.
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"Still some uncertainty about the deal," said Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian Kurd who is an asylum seeker and a journalist.
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But the fact that the chief suspect is an Iraqi asylum seeker has turned a terrible crime into political dynamite.
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In October 2016, Maria Ladenburger, a 19-year-old university student, was raped and killed by an Afghan asylum seeker.
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One asylum-seeker she represented had been detained since July without ever seeing the inside of a courtroom until recently.
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Recently, "The Moth Radio Hour" aired my story about a chance encounter on an airplane with a Guatemalan asylum seeker.
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Breni, an asylum-seeker from Honduras, moments after she is pulled out of the Rio Grande River in Matamoros, Mexico.
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Those numbers are not based on the actual needs or dangers faced by the asylum seeker, but by political calculation.
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Singh is an asylum-seeker with no criminal record who has a diabetic wife, two teenage daughters, and elderly parents.
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Dutton was responsible for asylum seeker policies until standing down this week over his role in unseating leader Malcolm Turnbull.
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Two assailants, a Syrian asylum seeker and a refugee from either Pakistan or Afghanistan, had links to Islamist militancy, officials say.
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The failed asylum seeker detonated the device outside a bar Sunday evening after being refused entry to a music festival nearby.
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Prosecutors suspect that he and two accomplices wanted to implicate refugees in their planned attack by posing as an asylum seeker.
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A 2-year-old Honduran asylum-seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained on June 12 in McAllen, Texas.
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If an asylum seeker is not represented by an attorney, almost all (91 percent) are denied, data by TRAC Immigration shows.
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Amri, a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia, killed 12 people when he plowed a truck through a Christmas market in Berlin.
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At Yucel's demolition site, 25-year-old Kurdish asylum seeker Nurettin, knows what it's like to be caught in the system.
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The nationalist-minded, euroskeptic governments in Warsaw and Budapest have refused to take in a single asylum-seeker under the plan.
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Last year, a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia killed 12 people when he drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas Market.
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HRCP said the family has been living in Pakistan for the past year on a valid United Nations' asylum seeker certificate.
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"Donald Trump wants to save his country, but we have to save our lives," asylum-seeker Osnel Clairibus told Radio-Canada.
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Researchers have found that the likelihood that an asylum seeker will succeed varies enormously depending on which judge hears the case.
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The recommended approval allows the asylum-seeker a chance to apply for a work permit before the 150-day wait period.
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She is a founder and a director of the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project at the Urban Justice Center in New York.
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He managed to make his way to the Netherlands, where he was offered asylum-seeker housing — in a former prison complex.
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But is it really acceptable not to cover a crime because it has possibly been perpetrated by a young asylum seeker?
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ICE then makes the determination on whether an asylum seeker should go into detention or be released pending a court hearing.
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The deteriorating situation inside Philippine jails, the pleas of a Saudi asylum seeker in Thailand and the mysteries of whale song.
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Earlier this month, a Honduran asylum seeker was raped and kidnapped by Mexican federal police in the city, El Diario reported.
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"The situation is so bad here," said Ali, an Afghan asylum-seeker who arrived in Greece with his three children in August.
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The Iranian asylum seeker was awarded the 2016 Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning for his work depicting life on the island.
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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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Those who take in fewer people than their quota, would pay the same amount for every asylum-seeker they fail to take.
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But if an asylum seeker tries to enter the US legally, at a port of entry, she may not fare any better.
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And a Tunisian failed-asylum seeker, who had pledged allegiance to ISIS, killed 12 people in the December 2016 Berlin market attack.
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The suspected perpetrator, 24-year old Tunisian Anis Amri, was an asylum seeker who had escaped deportation after his application was rejected.
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In April, Rakhmat Akilov, an Uzbek national and failed asylum seeker, mowed down pedestrians with a truck in Stockholm, killing four people.
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However, commentators on the left and right who see the European asylum-seeker experience as an analogy for American refugees are misguided.
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For example, trans homeless protections are included in the Sanders housing plan, and trans asylum-seeker protections are in his immigration plan.
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Ms. Merkel's coalition party in Bavaria would like to send back any asylum seeker who has first registered in another European country.
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Jenaro Mejia, 54, an asylum seeker from Honduras, said his first court hearing in the United States was set for Aug. 5.
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The allegations, reported by Australian media, were made by a Chinese asylum seeker in Australia who said he was a Chinese spy.
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The migrants evacuated to Rwanda have been given asylum-seeker status there while the U.N refugee agency determines whether they are refugees.
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Two United Church of Christ ministers washed the feet of an asylum-seeker and a "Dreamer" on the Capitol lawn, HuffPost reported.
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In Norway, the police arrested a 17-year-old asylum seeker from Russia in connection with an explosive device found in Oslo.
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The man who killed himself on the bridge this week isn't the first asylum-seeker to end up taking their own life.
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The allegations, reported by Australian media, were made by a Chinese asylum seeker in Australia who said he was a Chinese spy.
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SYDNEY, Australia — A stateless Kurdish-Iranian asylum-seeker detained by the Australian government won the country's highest-paying literary prize on Thursday.
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The Geneva Convention on refugees requires signatories to examine individually each claim for protection submitted by an asylum seeker on their soil.
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Prosecutors said Monday that the unidentified asylum-seeker was arrested at a refugee home in the nearby town of Kerpen over the weekend.
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The leader of the gang was named as a Congolese asylum-seeker who had been allowed to stay in Italy on humanitarian grounds.
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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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The result is that real human beings, like the innocent-bystander Pakistani asylum seeker detained as a terrorist, get caught in the gap.
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The incident occurred in the same CBP sector where a 7-year-old Guatemalan asylum-seeker, Jakelin Caal, fell ill earlier this month.
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Yet public angst remains high, thanks partly to high-profile cases like the recent murder of a Jewish teenager by an asylum-seeker.
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One Eritrean asylum seeker in Germany said tribesmen kidnapped his group and sold him for $500 to a military chief in Sabha, Libya.
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Habib Habib, from the Australian Burmese Rohingya Organization, said the man alleged to have carried out the attack was a Rohingya asylum seeker.
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The Berlin attack, in which a rejected asylum-seeker from Tunisia drove a truck into a Christmas market, took place on Dec. 19.
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Mr. Turnbull said that in 800 days, no asylum seeker had successfully arrived by boat, and there had been no deaths at sea.
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Labor representatives said it was about "doing the right thing", and the vote provoked cheers from asylum-seeker activists in parliament's public gallery.
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The US can't deport an asylum seeker without at least a screening interview to determine if they have a "credible fear" of persecution.
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Thirty-three year old asylum-seeker Mohammed Salah Uddin Ahmed had completed a bachelor's degree in anthropology in Bangladesh before fleeing death threats.
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In the second year, friends started stopping by on the way to family celebrations to drop off food for the asylum-seeker Thanksgiving.
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"They've destroyed everything: our belongings, our shelters, our rooms and beds," said Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish asylum seeker and journalist in the center.
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Early last year, Germany mistakenly sent back to China a 22-year-old Uighur asylum seeker, who has not been heard from since.
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Translators often act as more of an impediment than the Austrian officials because they come from the same community as the asylum seeker.
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Separately, prosecutors said a German soldier posed as a Syrian asylum seeker and planned a violent attack that risked stirring anti-immigrant sentiment.
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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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The teenager had run away from a drug rehabilitation center on Monday and met a Nigerian asylum seeker, Innocent Oseghale, the next day.
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The incident followed the killing of a pregnant woman by another Syrian asylum-seeker earlier on Sunday in in the southwestern city of Reutlingen.
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Asylum-seeker advocates welcomed the U.S. commitment, although they remained concerned that "extreme vetting" could see fewer than 1,250 resettled in the United States.
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The man, named as Omid, had been held for three years in the Australian center on Nauru, according to the Asylum Seeker Resource Center.
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Karim, one of the refugees in the camp, arrived from Germany, where he had been recognised as an asylum-seeker and was attending school.
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Australia has refrained from publicly commenting on human rights violations committed by those countries with whom it cooperates on turning asylum seeker boats back.
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The children, aged between six and 11, spend time discussing the differences between a refugee, an asylum seeker, a migrant and a displaced person.
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German authorities have been on high alert since a Tunisian failed asylum seeker rammed a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin on Dec.
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"Any asylum seeker is free to travel upon his/her decision and willingness," a ministry spokeswoman told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an email.
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I have been doing a lot of campaigning on LGBTI+ issues for quite a long time now, for global equality, LGBT asylum seeker issues.
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It's not the waiting that is destroying Hafiz Abdalla, although existing in the strange limbo between asylum seeker and German resident is constantly disorienting.
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The migrant issue has become more heated after an attack before Christmas in Berlin in which an asylum-seeker from Tunisia killed 12 people.
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Among those in the president's crosshairs was Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who came to the U.S. at age 10 as an asylum seeker from Somalia.
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One of those people was Marco Antonio Muñoz, an asylum seeker who committed suicide in detention after being separated from his children and family.
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During the service, Graf von Rechberg washed the feet of a Pakistani asylum seeker, as Jesus had washed his disciples' feet before the crucifixion.
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Prosecutors suspect that Franco Hans A., along with two accomplices, wanted to implicate refugees in their planned attack by posing as an asylum seeker.
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After an investigation, Germany determined that Tunisian bureaucratic delays had slowed the deportation of Amri, a rejected asylum seeker living under numerous false aliases.
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The U.N. conferred refugee status on Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, with the Australian government saying it's considering her status as an asylum seeker.
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, in which a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia, Anis Amri, drove a truck into a Christmas market.
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Liberals won't like my call to meddle in Central American politics and sic ICE on every asylum seeker who lost after a fair hearing.
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"The idea was not to make money," said Ngwo Diddas Elad, 26, a Cameroonian asylum seeker who became Mr. Pekings's partner in the venture.
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An asylum-seeker who refused to eat for more than 70 days while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody was reportedly released Thursday.
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In August, a Russian man with links to Russian intelligence services was caught after shooting a Chechen activist and asylum seeker in Berlin park.
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Ovideo, who fled his country after being blacklisted by gangs, identified himself as an asylum-seeker at the San Diego-Tijuana border in January.
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A Safe Third Country agreement is a bilateral treaty under which one country can reject and return an asylum seeker to another safe country.
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Last month, Malaysia arrested and sent home a Thai anti-monarchy campaigner after she registered as an asylum-seeker with the U.N. refugee agency.
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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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Jose, a 27-year-old Honduran asylum seeker, was reunited with his 3-year-old son on Tuesday after spending nearly two months apart.
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BERLIN – A rejected asylum-seeker from Iran suffered serious injuries when he set fire to himself Tuesday at a town office in Germany, authorities said.
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In Arquata del Tronto, where the quake killed almost 50 people, Abdullai, an asylum seeker from Benin, has been helping with the clear-up work.
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"I (am) very scared, maybe they can arrest me," said Supun Kellapatha, a Sri Lankan asylum seeker who gave up his family's bed for Snowden.
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One asylum seeker from Nepal was put on a commercial flight Wednesday night and told he was being returned to his home country, Lomai said.
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EG, a successful asylum-seeker from El Salvador, spoke to Axios via interpreter Antonia Basu and asked that her name be withheld for her safety.
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On Tuesday he was assaulted in broad daylight by a Syrian asylum-seeker who whipped him with a belt for being "yahudi" — Arabic for Jew.
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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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A.P.F., a Honduran asylum-seeker held in immigration detention in Los Fresnos, Texas, has been separated from his 12-year-old daughter since June 5.
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As The Economist went to press German media reported that he was a Pakistani asylum-seeker who had arrived in Germany in the past year.
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He was an asylum-seeker, having been involved in a local political party that was then targeted for reprisals after elections didn't go their way.
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The main suspect, who is in pre-trial detention pending an investigation, has been named as Abderrahman Bouanane, a 22-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker.
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But asylum-seeker advocates fear the United States will not accept its full quota as Trump has vowed applicants would have to satisfy "extreme vetting".
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police on Wednesday said they were investigating an assault after an anti-immigrant group said its members had detained an asylum seeker.
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The two Cambodians, who include an asylum seeker, were detained on Monday night and were to be deported to their home country the following afternoon.
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A U.N. report in October heavily criticized Nauru for its failure to protect asylum seeker children from sexual abuse inside the Australian-funded detention center.
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Take note of the young boy's reaction: Tonight, Guatemalan asylum seeker Hermelindo Che Coc was reunited w/ his 21994-yr-old son, Jefferson at LAX.
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The first return of an asylum-seeker took place in Mexico's west coast city of Tijuana, at the opposite end of the border from Reynosa.
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One wall at the school displayed students' work with the Asylum Seeker Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that assists refugees hoping to resettle in Australia.
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During the six months ending in June, only 14.7 percent of the case reviews in immigration court found the asylum seeker had a credible fear.
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Two days later her alleged assailant, Ali Bashar, a 20-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq, was apprehended in Iraqi Kurdistan, where he had fled.
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They will, we hope, understand that a man's conduct, knowledge, experience and demeanor matter — for all of us, farmer, student, immigrant and asylum seeker alike.
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"We've certainly seen this after other major events," said Carolyn Graydon, principal solicitor with the human rights law program at the Asylum Seeker Resource Center.
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A Cuban asylum-seeker decided to go on a hunger strike to protest abusive conditions of ICE custody, where he had spent nearly five months.
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In April last year Uzbek asylum seeker Rakhmat Akilov killed five people when he mowed down pedestrians with a truck on a busy Stockholm street.
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Recently, Laura Monterrosa, an asylum seeker from El Salvador, spoke out about her alleged sexual abuse by guards at the T. Don Hutto Detention Facility.
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In December a failed Tunisian asylum seeker who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people.
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"The (Honduran asylum-seeker) who arrived requires shelter and we're working with organizations to offer this help," IOM spokeswoman Melissa Vega said in an interview.
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Investigators started a nationwide search for the attacker after finding no evidence that their initial suspect, a 26-year-old Pakistani asylum seeker, was involved.
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Questioned by VICE News, a Home Office spokesperson refused to rule out the possibility that an Eritrean asylum seeker could be deported directly to Eritrea.
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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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Those issues took on new urgency after a failed Tunisian asylum seeker killed a dozen people in an attack on a Berlin Christmas market in December.
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But the officer "wasn't even allowed to make an argument" that the asylum seeker should be allowed to stay in the US to pursue his case.
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The policy was announced in December, but the first asylum seeker to be sent back, a lone Honduran man, wasn't returned to Mexico until Jan. 29.
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A 211-year-old Honduran asylum-seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US–Mexico border on June 12, in McAllen, Texas.
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US immigration officials deleted surveillance footage of a transgender asylum-seeker who died while in custody last year, according to internal emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News.
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That was when he admitted to having other plans: He wanted to become a political asylum-seeker because it was unsafe for him to return home.
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A 2-year-old Honduran asylum-seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US–Mexico border on June 12, in McAllen, Texas.
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His father is an asylum-seeker turned citizen in the US, and throughout his youth, José has struggled with the idea of whether to join him.
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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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An asylum seeker presented herself at an official port of entry, said she feared persecution in her home country, and was processed as an "inadmissible" alien.
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YOU would be hard-pressed to find a more unlikely supporter of Geert Wilders, an anti-immigrant Dutch politician, than Khalid Jone, a Sudanese asylum seeker.
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That compares with a 250,000 euro fine floated by the bloc's executive European Commission a year ago for each asylum seeker a country refuses to take.
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Iranian asylum seeker Mohammed Bagher Bayzavi at his front door in Union Street, Middlesbrough, which was painted red by Jomast, a subcontractor of services giant G4S.
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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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The main suspect, a 22-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker, has told a court he was responsible for the attack but denied his motive was terrorism.
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An asylum-seeker in quarantine R.M. is one in a wave of new detainees sent thousands of miles to the facility over the last few weeks.
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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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Those living in abandoned buildings find their way there through an informal network of refugees, often after being granted refugee status and leaving asylum seeker centers.
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A federal job guarantee is an intriguing idea — assuming the jobs are for some defined "us" that doesn't include every immigrant, asylum-seeker or undocumented worker.
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However, critics accuse the Australian government of seeking to sway public opinion following the relocation of a Tamil asylum-seeker family to Christmas Island on Saturday.
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"If he is your lawyer, you feel safety," said Vanessa Mae Bondalian Rodel, an asylum seeker from the Philippines who took in Mr. Snowden in 2013.
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Anis Amri, a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia, was shot dead in a gunfight with police in the Milan suburb of Sesto San Giovanni on Dec.
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"Anyone who is brought here is still classified as a transitory person," said Jana Favero, director of advocacy and campaigns at the Asylum Seeker Resource Center.
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In this autobiography, plainly told but gently gripping, she recounts how she went from asylum seeker to the embodiment of America's most enduring myth about itself.
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Also on the bridge was Jilma, a 26-year-old Honduran asylum-seeker who was sent to Nuevo Laredo after presenting herself at the US border.
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Indeed, last year Anis Amri, a Tunisian asylum seeker with an established criminal record, drove a truck into a crowded Berlin Christmas market killing 12 bystanders.
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One woman had approached CBP officials at the port in El Paso on three occasions identifying herself as a Mexican asylum seeker, but was turned away.
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A 2-year-old Honduran asylum-seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the US–Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, June 12, 303.
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They were detained in Taipei to help with investigations over allegations — by a Chinese asylum seeker in Australia — that China interfered in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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The manager of the Red Cross reception centre in Turku, where flags flew at half-mast on Saturday, told Reuters the suspect was an asylum seeker.
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A little under 2500% of the earth's population is either "an asylum-seeker, internally displaced or a refugee" according to the UNHCR report, which was released Monday.
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German authorities say a rejected asylum-seeker from Iran suffered serious injuries after setting fire to himself at a town office near the southwestern city of Ulm.
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A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.
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Gabriela Orellana, 26, an asylum seeker from El Salvador who was scheduled to have her first hearing on Tuesday, was delighted by news of the judge's ruling.
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"The chance of being murdered in a terrorist attack committed by an asylum-seeker was one in 2.73 billion a year," wrote the study's author, Alex Nowrasteh.
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In Sweden, by contrast, being under 18 means that an asylum-seeker gets a place in a special home and, in some cases, better access to lawyers.
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Guatemalan asylum-seeker Hermelindo Che Coc cries as he reunites with his 223-year-old son, Jefferson Che Pop, in the Los Angeles area on July 230.
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"We are part of history because we did good things," said Supun Kellapatha, an asylum seeker from Sri Lanka who gave up his family's bed for Snowden.
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In his time off, he lived at a refugee centre in Bavaria, masquerading as David Benjamin, a Syrian asylum seeker driven from his home by Islamic State.
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Ersson said she would not take her seat until the asylum seeker was removed from the flight, saying the man would most likely be killed in Afghanistan.
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At one of Tijuana's already overcrowded migrant shelters, asylum-seeker Patricia Monzon said she was hopeful her patience and compliance with the law would ultimately be rewarded.
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Since 2013 Australia has said that no refugee or asylum seeker who attempted to reach the country by boat without a visa would ever be resettled there.
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Scott Morrison, most recently the country's treasurer and former implementer of Australia's controversial "stop the boats" asylum seeker policy, was sworn in as prime minister on Friday.
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A federal judge said the government violated the due process rights of an asylum seeker after he was detained for nearly three years without a bail hearing.
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German investigators strongly suspect Russian government involvement in the apparent brazen assassination of a former Chechen rebel turned asylum seeker in a central Berlin park last week.
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Paul is a Nigerian asylum-seeker who was until recently detained at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia ("Paul" is a pseudonym to protect his safety).
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Last month, Los Angeles Times reporter Esmerelda Bermudez accompanied Hermelindo Che Coc, an asylum-seeker from Guatemala, as he was reunited with his six-year-old son.
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The incident, which occurred back in 2012, was the source of much media interest at the time—not least because the perpetrator was an Afghan asylum seeker.
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"The whole thing about the process is that it seems random and uncertain," said Jana Favero, director of advocacy at the Asylum Seeker Resource Center in Australia.
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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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Last month, the body of another Iranian asylum seeker, Hamed Shamshiripour, was discovered by children in Papua New Guinea, in what the police believe was a suicide.
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BERLIN — A rejected asylum seeker from Iran suffered serious injuries when he set fire to himself on Tuesday at a town office in Germany, the authorities said.
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"I feel overwhelmed right now," said Adela Abigail Castillo de Moreira, an asylum seeker from El Salvador who has been waiting in Ciudad Juárez for a month.
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One asylum seeker, Rubia Morales, says in a lawsuit filed earlier this year that her treatment in ICE custody led her to have a miscarriage, KPBS reports.
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A Suicide Bombing in Bavaria Days later, a 27-year-old Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up outside a wine bar in southern Germany, wounding 15 people.
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But critics of Australia's immigration policy say the issue of what to do with refugee and asylum-seeker children has been mishandled by officials here for years.
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Security has been tight at Europe's Christmas markets since an ISIS-supporting failed asylum seeker killed 12 people and injured 56 with a truck in December 2016.
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Amri first registered as an asylum-seeker in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in July last year, Ralf Jäger, the state's interior minister, told reporters.
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In June, Rakhmat Akilov, an Uzbek asylum seeker in Sweden, was sentenced to life in prison for killing five people in Stockholm with a hijacked truck in 2017.
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"The ABC has been pretty forthright in its critical reporting of the asylum seeker issue in relation to Nauru and this is an extension of that," Kingsbury said.
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Merkel, who has been criticized for allowing in huge numbers of migrants last year, addressed head-on the possibility that an asylum-seeker was responsible for the carnage.
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Australia's tough asylum seeker policy of mandatory detention has been criticized internationally, but is likely to figure highly in national elections due to be held later this year.
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Yuselys, a Cuban asylum-seeker whose partner is detained at LaSalle's Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana, said the people held there are in physical and psychological distress.
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Even as our constitutional rights are stripped away in service of the president's anti-immigrant fearmongering, no one had ever been arrested for accompanying an asylum-seeker before.
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The administration is proposing a dramatic increase in the time before an asylum-seeker would become eligible to receive a work permit — from 180 days to 365 days.
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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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Dunia, an asylum-seeker from Honduras, is reunited with her 5-year-old son, Wilman, at Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport in Brownsville, Texas, on July 20.
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"Here we have come to save our lives but I think we will die here in jail," one asylum-seeker said, according to Teesdale's affidavit in that filing.
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ROME (Reuters) - Police in southern Italy arrested a 22-year-old Somali imam and asylum seeker on Wednesday on suspicion that he was planning an attack in Rome.
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The campaign has cost the Hungarian taxpayers the equivalent of over 16 million euros -- or approximately 12,000 euro per asylum seeker that Hungary has been asked to take.
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The Gambian asylum seeker on trial for killing American nanny Lauren Mann was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison by a court in Vienna on Wednesday.
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So it is hardly surprising to hear her lament the high taxes and hiring costs of the homeland she adopted as a young asylum-seeker 27 years ago.
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"She's effectively in detention inside the hospital," said Natasha Blucher, a long-time advocate for the family and activist with the Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network.
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"Goodness without preparation may be risky both for the asylum seeker and for whoever hosts them," said a source within the ministry who spoke with the Huffington Post.
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The Refugee Action Coalition, an advocacy group, reports that one Iraqi asylum seeker tried to hang himself and was saved when he was cut down by a guard.
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That is less than 3 percent of the total refugee and asylum seeker population currently in Indonesia, whose levels have remained constant at around 14,000 in recent years.
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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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The occasional shocking headline, like that on a failed asylum seeker who severely injured an emergency doctor with a bottle last week, reinforces a sense of growing insecurity.
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A young asylum seeker who was tortured in his native Venezuela no longer faces deportation after an immigration judge in Miami ended removal proceedings against him this week.
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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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Works include "Kolonists," about a once-privileged Russian family, set in 1996, and "Pantry Boys," about two writers in Berlin who terrorize a Syrian asylum seeker next door.
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A coroner said in 2018 that a faster medical transfer could have prevented the death of Hamid Khazaei, an Iranian asylum seeker who suffered from a leg infection.
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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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Since the beginning of 2016, three men in their 20s detained on Nauru have died from causes related to self-harm, including an Iranian asylum-seeker last month-.
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That makes it nearly impossible to swiftly deport an immigrant arrested in the US, or an asylum seeker who's been allowed to enter after passing a screening interview.
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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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They may be entitled to due process to the extent they have a chance to be considered for entry into the United States as a refugee or asylum-seeker.
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Germany is on high alert a year after a failed Tunisian asylum seeker killed 12 people when he hijacked a truck and drove it into a Berlin Christmas market.
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Per an NYT spokesperson, the paper has only done this a few times in its history, most recently for this piece by an unnamed asylum seeker from El Salvador.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - The Moroccan asylum seeker who told a court he killed two women in a knife attack in Finland is called Abderrahman Bouanane, legal papers showed on Monday.
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Twelve of the 403 suspects are linked to sexual crimes, though only one of those—a Moroccan asylum-seeker who entered Germany in November—is in custody, he said.
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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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Police have previously detained the main suspect, a Moroccan asylum seeker and three other men in connection with the killings, which they suspected of having had a terrorist motive.
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That's been true for at least 15 years, when former Prime Minister John Howard prospered so handsomely from his asylum-seeker policies, from which the current program is derived.
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Mubariz Mahmood, 28, an asylum-seeker from Pakistan who lives in the building, identified the bomber as Mohammad Daleel, a name that appears on a directory outside the building.
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For the asylum-seeker who is locked up, immigration detention means the complete deprivation of liberty and often, hope, and it means being subjected to countless forms of abuse.
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The second-biggest Italian city is offering a monthly payment of 350 euros ($503) to every resident willing to host a refugee, or an asylum seeker, in their home.
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Elin Ersson refused to take her seat on the flight until the pilot gave the OK to remove the man, a 52-year-old asylum seeker, from the plane.
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Andrea Sáenz, supervising attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services' Immigration Practice, recalled the devastating effects that being detained had on one of her clients, a gay asylum seeker from Mali.
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Earlier this year, we published an anonymous essay by an asylum seeker whose name we withheld because she was concerned about gang violence against her family in El Salvador.
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"They've destroyed everything: our belongings, our shelters, our rooms and beds," said Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish asylum seeker and journalist in the center, who was arrested and released Thursday.
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"I wish this were an exception to the rule," said Swapna Reddy, a co-director of the New York-based Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, which worked on the case.
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A young Honduran asylum-seeker waits with her family on the international bridge from Mexico to the United States next to the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, Dec. 9.
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Right now, once an asylum seeker is in immigration court, they can ask the judge to consider them for any form of legal status they feel they qualify for.
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One in ten of those people is a refugee or asylum seeker, the U.N. said in a report on migration trends and developments released to coincide with International Migrants Day.
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PARIS – An Iraqi asylum-seeker is in French custody on preliminary charges of war crimes and terrorism amid reports that he was a senior figure in the Islamic State group.
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Immigration attorneys say Borrales isn't the only asylum-seeker being forced to wait until several months to see a judge, with some receiving court dates as late as June 2020.
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"You're not allowed to work -- I have no permission," said Giovanny, an asylum seeker who asked that his last name not be used in case he's sent back to Honduras.
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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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In April last year, Uzbek asylum seeker Akilov allegedly hijacked a truck and sped down a busy pedestrian street in Stockholm hitting 19 people before crashing into a department store.
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The Eritrean, an asylum-seeker, was then set upon by the four defendants, who prosecutors said kicked him as he lay on the ground and hit him with a bench.
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Bautzen police said they had launched criminal proceedings against a 29-year-old German man in possession of a stun gun who is suspected of having threatened an asylum seeker.
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He said he was satisfied that police and security officials had communicated well over the case of the failed Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri, who killed 12 people on Dec.
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The Justice Department recently argued that the government should be able to force a teenage asylum-seeker to continue a pregnancy against her wishes—even though she'd survived a rape.
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Also, it is not beyond reason that a sovereign nation would be allowed to inquire whether the religious beliefs of an asylum seeker are compatible with the American constitutional order.
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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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There has to be some sort of individualized assessment that this particular asylum seeker would skip out on her court hearing, or pose a risk to the US, if released.
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" Ellie goes onto say that the project's priority has been to carve out a community where those seeking refuge "feel human again without the tags of 'refugee' or 'asylum seeker.
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"Have you heard of Anne Frank?" asked Yikealo, an asylum seeker from Eritrea, to the Israeli soldier who greeted him warmly at the border, then open, with Egypt in 2008.
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A 9-year-old asylum-seeker from El Salvador was held in a California Border Patrol station for 10 days with her mother, according to a lawsuit reviewed by KPBS.
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An asylum-seeker from Honduras who presented himself at the southern border this summer seeking protection was forced to wait in Mexico until his court date in the United States.
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In 2018, a coroner ruled that a more timely medical transfer could have prevented the death of Hamid Khazaei, an Iranian asylum seeker detained on Manus, from a leg infection.
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We know that access to counsel is one of the most important factors in whether or not an asylum seeker is able to live in safety in the United States.
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In her speech, she said the government would introduce measures to improve security after a failed Tunisian asylum seeker drove a truck into a Christmas market in the capital on Dec.
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She continues: It follows from current rules that an asylum seeker, who brings sufficient means to take care of him- or herself, should not also receive support from the Immigration Service.
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MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 12: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.
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SAN BENITO, Texas (Reuters) - With tears and smiles, Salvadoran asylum seeker Walter Armando Jimenez Melendez reunited with his 4-year-old son Jeremy on Tuesday after six weeks of anguished separation.
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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 photo, taken by Getty photographer John Moore, shows a 183-year-old Honduran asylum-seeker sobbing while her mother is searched and detained at the Texas border on June 11.
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The lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and filed in U.S. District Court in southern California, expands on the claim of a single Congolese asylum seeker filed last week.
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That's not something all Rohingya in Malaysia possess – it can be a slow process for a newly arrived asylum-seeker to apply for refugee status, and applications are not always successful.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Australia&aposs highest court on Wednesday rejected the refugee claims of two Pakistani and a Nepalese asylum seeker because they could find somewhere safe in their homelands to live.
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How it works: Before an asylum seeker or unauthorized immigrant sets foot in court, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) decides if they will be detained or released until their court date.
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A British court found teenage Iraqi asylum seeker guilty of attempted murder Friday for detonating a homemade bomb on a crowded train during rush hour on the London Underground last year.
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She refused to take her seat until a 52-year-old asylum-seeker, who was ultimately to be sent back to Afghanistan, was removed from the flight, according to the Hill.
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The week before Christmas, a Tunisian terrorist/refugee/asylum seeker who had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State drove a Polish semi-trailer truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin.
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In one case, according to two Ciudad Juarez officials, a Guatemalan asylum seeker waiting in the city with his young daughter asked a Mexican policeman for help returning to their country.
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Australia says that no asylum seeker who tries to reach the country by boat will ever be allowed to settle there, regardless of whether he or she is granted refugee status.
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Mr. Aldeen, the son of an Iraqi father and a Moldovan mother, is himself a former asylum seeker who left Moldova at the age of 9 and grew up in Denmark.
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One asylum seeker, Imran Mohammad, said in a text message that three diabetic men had fallen ill because they were unable to get insulin, and the camp was strewn with garbage.
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Just last week, a 26-year-old Iranian asylum seeker died on Nauru, reportedly the third to die by suicide, and the 12th to die in offshore detention facilities since 2012.
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He argues the law is necessary for the government to keep its promise that no asylum seeker who comes to Australia by boat will ever be allowed to live in Australia.
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The investigators were looking into whether the students had any ties to an officer who has been detained for posing under a false identity as an asylum seeker, the newspaper said.
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Celia, a 42-year-old asylum-seeker from Honduras, said living in the encampment is difficult, in part, because there is no clean water to bathe in or to wash clothes.
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So far, some Western diplomatic officials believe the claims by an asylum seeker named Wang Liqiang to be reliable at least in part, according to two people briefed on the matter.
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One asylum-seeker said the cartels can tell who has just been returned from the US by their lace-less shoes and the telltale manila case folders and documents they carry.
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Would-Be Chinese Defector Details Covert Campaigns in Hong Kong and Taiwan: The claims by an asylum seeker in Australia couldn't be independently verified, but Western officials are treating them seriously.
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An independent medical panel would review that decision, but the minister can still refuse the medical transfer on national security grounds, or if the asylum seeker has a serious criminal record.
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Our investigations and campaigns won awards, changed government policy, and exposed miscarriages of justice, from scrapping the humiliating asylum seeker voucher scheme to mixed sex mental health wards and pauper's graves.
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A Syrian asylum seeker has been sentenced to life in prison by an Austrian court after being convicted of war crimes for killing 20 wounded government soldiers in his country's civil war.
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However, it is worth observing that this could only be considered a good deal in a world where developed countries have a strong aversion to receiving asylum seeker claims at their borders.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada delayed the deportation of a Saudi asylum seeker slated for Wednesday after a United Nations human rights committee asked for time to review the man's case, his lawyer said.
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The asylum seeker was scheduled to be flown to Riyadh on Wednesday but was instead taken to a Quebec hospital for "stress-related" reasons, lawyer Stephanie Valois told Reuters in an email.
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"We are living like insects, we are living like animals," said one Pakistani asylum seeker who claims he has been waiting for days to just get into the immigration office in Rome.
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International outrage spread after the New York Daily News featured a photo of a 2-year-old Honduran asylum-seeker, crying as her mother is searched and detained at the Texas border.
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In some cases, the interviews are done in Spanish because the asylum-seeker understands a little and doesn't feel empowered enough to demand it be done in their preferred language, Murdza said.
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Speaking to Berliner Morgenpost on Tuesday, Magnitz said he believed the attack was an "assassination attempt," and suggested a group named after an asylum-seeker who died in police custody was responsible.
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Memories are still fresh in Germany of the Berlin Christmas market attack last December, in which 12 people were killed by a failed asylum seeker who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
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Eric Ngalle, a 36-year-old former asylum-seeker, spent a month in Lynx House in Cardiff and told The Guardian it was "one of the most horrible experiences" of his life.
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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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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish court on Monday sentenced a Syrian asylum seeker to eight months in prison after he posed for photos with dead bodies during the conflict in his home country.
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The arrest comes one month before the first anniversary of an attack in Berlin by a failed Tunisian asylum seeker who killed 12 people by plowing a truck into a Christmas market.
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An asylum seeker might also have used a fake identity to escape his or her home country, or might have committed political crimes in the home country that are not crimes here.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish police are studying a handwritten note they believe will offer clues to what motivated a 22-year old Moroccan asylum seeker to kill two women in a knife attack.
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In 2014, VICE News reported that a gay asylum seeker was forced to sleep on the kitchen floor for five months out of fear of sharing a room with a violent homophobe.
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On Tuesday, the United States government sent the first Central American asylum seeker back to Mexico through the Tijuana border crossing, part of the hardened immigration policy pursued by the Trump Administration.
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"A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas" he wrote in the caption.
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One sweltering afternoon, while I was waiting for an interview, I saw a Pakistani asylum seeker stumbling, drunk and swearing, toward one of the guards at a detention facility closer to Lorengau.
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Late Monday night, reports that Maria Ochoa Yoc de Ramírez, who was an asylum-seeker from Guatemala detained by immigration authorities, died at a hospital in Fort Worth, Texas the day before.
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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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The asylum seeker who watched Mr. Sihotang's first airport confrontation requested that he be identified only by his nickname, Neo, and that his home country not be named for fear of persecution.
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The report reserved its harshest criticism for the handling of events in September 2017, when Ahmed Hassan, a teenage Iraqi asylum seeker, tried to blow up a subway train in West London.
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Before the policy took effect, an asylum seeker would normally be detained and then speak with an officer who would assess the migrant's fear of returning to his or her home country.
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"We tried this before and it didn't work, so hopefully with the support that we have today, it will work," Ray, a 35-year-old asylum-seeker from Cuba, told BuzzFeed News.
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Sara, a 35-year-old Honduran asylum-seeker who was among the protesters on the bridge, said she's been living on the streets of Matamoros for two months with her three children.
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The deportation debate has flared in Germany since December when Anis Amri, a young Tunisian asylum seeker, drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 50.
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"Yes indeed I fear these results because I have arrived here with all my thoughts and dreams," said Musab Badur, an asylum seeker from Sudan who is living in a Milan shelter.
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"It's great feeling when you see the faces of the people who were under torture for years who have gotten freedom," said Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist and asylum seeker from Iran.
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On April 7 of that year, an Uzbek asylum seeker deliberately drove a truck into a crowd in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people in what the authorities called an act of terrorism.
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Meeting an Afghan asylum-seeker who had been tortured and raped by the Taliban, Mr Murray momentarily seems to understand the "generous instinct" that led European politicians to welcome refugees two years ago.
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"It's not only for the asylum seeker — for us in the restaurants it's going to be very, very hard," said Ido Breier, manager of a Tel Aviv branch of Pasta Basta restaurant chain.
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"What is resonating is that a lot of people are looking at that baby and thinking that could be my baby," said Kon Karapanagiotidis, chief executive officer of the Asylum Seeker Resource Center.
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Another migrant detained at the same facility, a Venezuelan asylum-seeker with diabetes and hypertension, has seen his health deteriorate because of the food served in the facility, his lawyer told VICE News.
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Only US citizens can vote in US elections, so it'd be impossible for any undocumented person or asylum-seeker from the caravan to vote in a US election until they became a citizen.
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A report by the ZEW institute earlier this year showed the probability of an asylum seeker becoming a victim of hate crime in eastern Germany is 10 times greater than in the west.
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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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"After about 20 hours, I stood up and asked what was going on and why we were waiting," Farah Ali Ibrahim, an asylum seeker and plaintiff in the lawsuit, said in a statement.
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A lawyer for one 19-year-old asylum seeker involved in the court hearing said the cuts left survivors unable to meet their basic living needs and at risk of being exploited again.
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Behnam Satah, a 30-year-old asylum seeker detained on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, said many in the camp were well educated and would be a boon to the Australian economy.
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Check out more videos from VICE: At a recent dinner in New York City an American woman attended with her child who instantly connected with the child of an asylum seeker from Venezuela.
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The suspected attacker, Anis Amri, a rejected asylum seeker from Tunisia, had the mobile phone number of the 40-year old Tunisian, whom they did not name, stored in his telephone, prosecutors said.
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Marta, another Ethiopian asylum seeker in the DC area, has been waiting in the US with her two young children since 2013, but her husband has still not been able to join them.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British police said they had now charged 13 people on Tuesday over a brutal attack on a teenage asylum seeker in south London which detectives said he was lucky to survive.
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In one of the last Montalbano television adaptations, broadcast in Italy in February, the detective delivers a pro-migrant message, jumping into the sea to recover the body of a drowned asylum seeker.
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In Tunisia, two of Amri's brothers, Walid and Abdelkader, said they feared the failed asylum-seeker may have been radicalized by radical Islamists while he spent almost four years behind bars in Italy.
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In October 2015, a border guard shot one Afghan asylum seeker dead, and this March, two bodies were discovered near one of the mountainous "forest highway" crossings by a town called Malko Tornovo.
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The relatives of a Cameroonian asylum-seeker who died in ICE custody in early October say the doctors pulled him off critical life support — even though the family had asked them not to.
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Prosecutors believe Abu Walaa preached at the Fussilet Mosque in Berlin, which was attended by a failed asylum seeker who killed 12 people at a Christmas market in the German capital last year.
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STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors have indicted a woman who in July staged a standoff to prevent the deportation of a rejected asylum seeker to Afghanistan by refusing to take her seat on the flight.
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Under the proposed regulation, however, an asylum-seeker who didn't know the precise nature of the basis for her persecution would be assumed to not really be a victim of persecution at all.
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"Polish people see what's happening in the West, in Sweden, for example," Marzoch said, referring to the recent terror attack in Stockholm carried out by an ISIS-sympathizing failed asylum seeker from Uzbekistan.
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Related: Australia's Offshore Asylum Seeker Detention Center Is Ruled Illegal Controversies arising from Australia's hardline immigration policy have become a major headache for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during campaigning for likely July elections.
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She said that she did not know of a single case of a Haitian asylum seeker among the recent newcomers who had been deported from Canada, given that the appeal process was lengthy.
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One asylum-seeker from El Salvador who staying in a Tijuana shelter while awaiting her immigration hearing in San Diego said she could only hope to God she would not be sent back.
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More ways to help: ActBlue Charities has set up a link that allows you to donate to 14 different organizations, including the ACLU, United We Dream, the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, and more.
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One asylum-seeker from El Salvador who staying in a Tijuana shelter while awaiting her immigration hearing in San Diego said she could only hope to God she would not be sent back.
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An Uzbek asylum seeker has been charged by a Swedish court over a deadly truck attack in Stockholm last month that put Uzbekistan, a largely Muslim Central Asian nation, in the global spotlight.
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"I would like to stress that there was no official announcement from the Turkish side about any changes in their asylum seeker, refugee or migrant policy," a spokesman told a news briefing Friday.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican asylum-seeker slit his own throat on a bridge across the Rio Grande after being denied entry into the United States, two Mexican security officials said on Wednesday.
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In addition, the US does not have a so-called "safe third country agreement" with Mexico, which means the United States can't tell an asylum seeker to turn around and apply in Mexico.
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An 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker was arrested on charges of killing two women in a knife rampage and wounding eight other people - six of them women - in Turku's main market square.
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Abderrahman Bouanane, a failed Moroccan asylum seeker who had seen himself as a soldier for Islamic State, stabbed two women to death and wounded eight other people in Turku's main square on Aug.
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Speaking to Mother Jones, one Cuban asylum seeker detained at a for-profit jail in Louisiana said that "it's going to be a massacre" once the coronavirus inevitably arrives at the overcrowded facility.
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"Don't be fooled by any government claims that getting kids off Nauru is their win," Jana Favero, the director of advocacy and campaigns at the Asylum Seeker Resource Center, said in an interview.
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"Whenever you reply my letters, it is a light for me in the darkness," said an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo who goes by the initial K in the archive.
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In March 2018, Mariee Juarez — the 18-month-old daughter of Yazmin Juarez, an asylum-seeker from Guatemala — developed a cough and fever of over 104 degrees a week after she came to Dilley.
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An official source with knowledge of the process said confusion around exactly what "extreme vetting" would mean was the reason asylum seeker interviews by officials from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) were postponed.
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The Innsbruck assaults occurred despite an increased police presence following the previous year's incidents in Cologne and also last month's truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin by a failed Tunisian asylum seeker.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - The 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker suspected of killing two women and wounding eight people with a knife in Finland on Friday is called Abderrahman Mechkah, a court said on Monday.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish Police have charged a 30-year-old Syrian man, an asylum-seeker to Sweden, with attempting to commit a "terrorist act" in Copenhagen in November 2016, according to a police statement.
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The Australian government has consistently stuck by its asylum seeker policies, which include not resettling any person who arrives by boat and towing any boat that reaches Australian waters to an offshore detention centre.
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Alexy Lyosha, Co-President and a former asylum seeker himself, says that it's partially due to HIV programs closing there, but also that services that do exist are corrupt because of the intolerant culture.
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Yes, there are enough golf courses in the United States for every adult and child asylum-seeker in Tijuana to have their own entire course — and there would still be nearly 9,000 left over.
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Germany is on high alert following deadly militant attacks in France and Belgium and after a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market in December, killing 12 people.
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Getty's caption on the June 12 picture taken at the Texas border town of McAllen said the photo showed a 2-year-old Honduran asylum seeker crying as her mother was searched and detained.
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The rights groups asked Pechman to amend her April ruling, and on Tuesday she ordered the administration again to provide bond hearings within seven days of a bond request, or release the asylum seeker.
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"There is undeniable, cumulative evidence that suggests that asylum seeker and refugee children are not safe under existing arrangements on Nauru," said Nicole Breeze, Director of Policy and Advocacy, UNICEF Australia, in a statement.
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The main suspect, 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker Abderrahman Mechkah, is being investigated for two cases of murder with terrorist intent and eight attempted murders with terrorist intent, the police said on Monday.
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Germany is on high alert following major radical Islamist attacks in France and Belgium and after a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia drove a truck into a Christmas market in December, killing 12 people.
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Her partner, a fellow Ethiopian asylum seeker who worked as an IT specialist before coming to the US, is struggling to find work and also has no updates about his three-year-old case.
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The company provides services for public sector departments in Britain and abroad, operating prisons and asylum seeker accommodation, organising health sector administration, running trains and ferries and providing IT support to the US Navy.
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Barragán then told Nielsen of an incident she witnessed crossing the border over the weekend, where a border agent allegedly turned away a Honduran asylum-seeker and his son at a port of entry.
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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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It said Erdogan's government should issue standard instructions to border guards at all crossing points that lethal force must not be used against asylum seekers and that no asylum seeker is to be mistreated.
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The man was an Afghan asylum seeker seated in the rear of the Turkish Airlines flight as it awaited departure from Gothenburg, Sweden, accompanied by officials assigned to transport him back to Kabul, Afghanistan.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia on Friday confirmed that it had deported a Turkish asylum seeker registered with the United Nations, along with his family, after police said he should not be in the country.
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But in theory, it means that an asylum seeker from Juárez, Mexico, could be deported from the El Paso border crossing a mile from his home to the Guatemalan border nearly 2,000 miles away.
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In short, unless an asylum-seeker can prove it is "more likely than not" that they will be persecuted or tortured in Guatemala, they will be removed to the country to obtain protections there.
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Separating migrant children from parents at the border, as happened last November when a Congolese asylum seeker in California saw her 7-year-old daughter taken away, is only the latest cruel measure announced.
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Germany is on high alert for potential attacks a year after failed Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri killed 12 people when he hijacked a truck and drove it into a crowded Berlin Christmas market.
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In July, a 17-year-old Afghan refugee attacked passengers on a German train and a 27-year-old Syrian asylum seeker blew himself up in southern Germany, wounding 15 others, compounding public fears.
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So far, there have been a handful of cases detected in asylum seeker reception centers across Europe — five in Heidelberg in the state of Baden-Württemberg, one in Suhl, Thuringia, another in Milan, Italy.
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Mr. Goldkin, who has a housemate who is an asylum seeker, said he would rather have more immigrants in Portland than wealthy people migrating from other states and changing the city's landscape and culture.
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No one with a conscience can look at the photo of an asylum seeker and his 23-month-old daughter lying dead on the bank of the Rio Grande and accept the status quo.
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Which brings us to Italy: Matteo Salvini, the new right-wing interior minister in Rome, has said his country cannot take one more asylum-seeker, and in fact wants to reduce the numbers currently there.
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BERLIN – German authorities are seeking a fugitive Iraqi asylum-seeker and have arrested a Turkish citizen over the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl who went missing more than two weeks ago.
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Germany is on high alert following deadly militant Islamist attacks in France and Belgium and after a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market in December, killing 12 people.
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Image 2 of 2 FRANKFURT, Germany – German police say a 20-year-old asylum-seeker has admitted killing a 14-year-old girl in a case that has stirred debate over Germany&aposs immigration policies.
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Vladeck said the new charges could also complicate the US government's efforts to extradite Assange from the UK, where until recently he'd lived for years as an asylum-seeker in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
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He didn't pay enough attention to the fact that nationalism can easily turn rancid: on March 31st a 17-year-old asylum-seeker was beaten almost to death in London by a gang of youths.
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In a 2018 study, two immigration advocacy groups - the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project and Catholic Legal Immigration Network - said they successfully challenged the in absentia orders of 44 of their 46 clients on the docket.
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LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Hungarian immigration officials should not have put a Nigerian asylum seeker through psychological tests to determine whether he was telling the truth that he was gay, the EU's top court ruled on Thursday.
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More than 1,900 detainees had alleged they suffered serious physical and psychological injuries during their time in the Australian government's offshore asylum seeker detention center on the Papua New Guinea island, between 2012 and 2016.
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Relatives of a Cameroonian asylum-seeker who was removed from life support in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody say the move transpired despite their requests that life support be continued, according to USA Today.
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ICE reportedly gave an asylum-seeker at a detention center ibuprofen after he was shot in the headA new lawsuit claims federal agents are using green card marriage interviews to find and arrest unauthorized immigrants
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BERLIN — A German special police unit has detained a Syrian asylum-seeker who they said they suspected of plotting a terrorist attack during the opening of the national soccer league season, German officials said Tuesday.
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Legomsky argued that placing such a burden on an asylum seeker -- especially as many of them don't have access to a lawyer and are not given one by the government -- could be prohibitive for many.
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The UK had ruled in 2012 that Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face questioning, but this never took place because of his stay in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London as an asylum seeker.
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The Senate hearing last week examined cases in which Mr. Dutton intervened, but also those he did not — for example, that of a Tamil asylum seeker whose wife and children had already received protection visas.
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Like Anis Amri, the Tunisian suspected of killing 219 by plowing a truck through a Christmas market in Berlin last year, the latest Tunisian suspect, who was not identified, entered Germany as an asylum seeker.
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Two years after surviving a gunshot wound to the head, a Guatemalan asylum-seeker fled to the U.S. as part of the so-called migrant caravan, all while suffering from headaches and possible brain hemorrhaging.
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And in Sweden, the authorities identified the suspect in an attack using a stolen beer truck as a 26-year-old Uzbek asylum seeker with ISIS sympathies who had been ordered to leave the country.
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"When there is doubt, you default with the applicant," the officer said, explaining that, in that case, the asylum-seeker would end up before a judge who would do a comprehensive assessment of the claim.
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The day began with what seemed to be a breakthrough, as the authorities announced that they were interrogating a 23-year-old Pakistani asylum seeker, arrested the previous night, who arrived in Germany last December.
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Political opponents of Ms. Merkel quickly seized on his status as an asylum seeker to renew their criticism that her migration policies had made Germany vulnerable to terrorism — before the man was cleared of suspicion.
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The new coalition deal resurrects some of the previous Kurz government's ideas such as preventive custody for people deemed a threat to public safety, proposed after a fatal stabbing apparently committed by an asylum seeker.
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Flensburg police said Thursday that a 24-year-old Eritrean asylum-seeker attacked a 35-year-old man with a knife on a long-distance train heading to the city on the Danish border, injuring him.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The significant sympathy generated by the detention and likely deportation of a baby girl born in Australia to Nepalese parents could be a watershed in public opinion about the country's harsh asylum seeker policies.
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Sweden has been on high alert for such attacks since Rakhmat Akilov, an Uzbek asylum seeker, killed five people when he drove a stolen truck into shoppers on a pedestrian street in Stockholm in April 2017.
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Assange is in London — he was arrested on April 11 after spending years in the Ecuadorian Embassy as an asylum-seeker — and is contesting efforts by the US government to extradite him to the United States.
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Andrae said authorities saw no links to an attack in southern Germany last Monday in which an ax-wielding 17-year-old asylum-seeker injured five people in an incident claimed by the Islamic State group.
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The news swiftly followed the three Islamic extremist terrorist attacks that have taken place in Germany in recent days – including an attempt by a failed Syrian asylum seeker to blow himself up outside a music festival.
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It turns out, we can make a very good prediction as to how the judge will rule before the case even opens, using only information on the judge's identity and the nationality of the asylum seeker.
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The document accuses the Interior Minister of supporting violent far-right demonstrations in the country, such as the Chemnitz protest about the alleged murder of a German citizen by an Iraqi and a Syrian asylum seeker.
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She packed a suitcase with all the clothes that she could carry, including some to give out to other refugees on the journey, and came across Daisy Yadira Arita, a Honduran asylum seeker who was barefoot.
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Her fourth novel, "Questions of Travel," which won Australia's most prestigious literary award, the Miles Franklin, contrasted the journeys of an asylum-seeker from the subcontinent with those of a backpacking travel-guide writer from Sydney.
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However, the Italian minister told reporters he had received reassurances on some key points, including a pledge that for every migrant Germany returned to Italy, the German authorities would accept a bonafide asylum seeker from Italy.
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Mohammad Dawood Niazi, an Afghan asylum seeker from northern Afghanistan living in Sweden, is worried this decision might prompt more asylum seekers not to cooperate with the system, creating more chaos in an already backlogged process.
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He met another Ethiopian man who, after hearing Dinku's story, drove the newly arrived asylum seeker to the offices of the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC), a Washington-based nonprofit that aids torture survivors.
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On Monday, she walked to a bus shelter just outside the Nauru camp, doused herself with an accelerant and set herself on fire, said Pamela Curr, an advocate at the Asylum Seeker Resource Center in Melbourne.
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She added that, if an asylum seeker dissociated during her assaults, she might not remember them well, and she might also have to dissociate in order to recount them and thus appear emotionless before a judge.
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In May 2017, Thai authorities assisted in handing Turkish asylum seeker Muhammet Furkan Sökmen to Turkish authorities because of alleged connections to exiled cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom Turkey deems responsible for a failed coup in 2016.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A failed Uzbek asylum seeker was jailed for life in Sweden on Thursday for killing five people when he slammed a stolen truck into shoppers on a busy street in Stockholm in April 2017.
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If the asylum officer determines there isn't a credible fear, the asylum seeker can appeal the decision to a judge, but the odds of getting a judge to overturn a negative finding are diminishing under Trump.
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Teklit Michael, a 29-asylum seeker from Eritrea living in Tel Aviv, said in response to the Israeli plan that paying money to other governments to take in Africans was akin to "human trafficking and smuggling".
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Ersson told the Guardian that she bought a ticket for the flight the day it was bound to take off, having heard that a young Afghan asylum seeker was going to be deported on the plane.
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"There's a lot of fear, because if they bring in an infected person, we're all going to get infected," said the detainee, an asylum seeker from Central America who was apprehended crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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"I would like to stress that there was no official announcement from the Turkish side about any changes in their asylum seeker, refugee or migrant policy," a spokesman for the EU's executive told a news briefing.
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The UNCHR has asked Malaysian authorities to respect international laws relating to his situation, in particular, the principle of "non-refoulement" - to forcibly return a refugee or asylum-seeker to their country of origin, said Ismail.
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What the case is about: An asylum-seeker from Eritrea was denied asylum because he served as a guard in a prison camp, though he alleged he was conscripted and would face persecution if he returned.
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MCALLEN, Texas – One by one, around Father&aposs Day, the surge of Amazon boxes containing shirts, pants, underwear and many other items began arriving at an asylum-seeker rest center in the border town of McAllen, Texas.
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Over 2,290 refugee and asylum seeker children were held in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia at the end of 2016, according to Save the Children and the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network in a report released on Thursday.
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Moreno also pointed to the fact that a 6-year-old asylum seeker nearly died under circumstances similar to Caal's a month earlier, and said CBP had more than enough time to shift resources to the area.
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Quoting an unnamed source, South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper had said the diplomat embarked on a defection journey "following a scrupulous plan" and was in the process of "landing in a third country as an asylum seeker".
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The 17-year-old asylum-seeker who wounded train passengers in an ax attack claimed by Islamic State tried to destroy his SIM card and internal mobile phone storage, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The future of an Australia's controversial asylum-seeker detention center in Papua New Guinea will be discussed during a two-day visit by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to the Pacific island nation starting Friday.
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The announcement comes on the heels of a controversial new law proposed by the government in late October to ban any asylum seeker who arrived by boat from ever stepping foot in Australia, even as a tourist.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian coroner found on Monday that the death of an Iranian asylum seeker held on a remote Pacific island was preventable and called on the Australian government to put the health of detainees first.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has cut its forecast of asylum seeker arrivals to just 3,000 people for 2017, down from a prediction of 7,000 made in March, acting Minister of Immigration and Integration Per Sandberg said on Wednesday.
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If the asylum officer determines during the screening interview that the migrant has a "credible fear" of persecution if returned, the asylum seeker is allowed to stay, file an application, and get a hearing before a judge.
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The father of an 18-year-old Saudi woman asylum seeker who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her has arrived in Bangkok and wants to meet his daughter, Thailand's immigration chief said.
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It would make the question of how an asylum-seeker got into the U.S., and whether they spent more than 2 weeks in a different country before applying for asylum, an important factor in immigration judges' decisions.
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"Most of the people here are depressed," said Sayed Akbar Jaffarie, 31, an Afghanistan-born asylum seeker who arrived in Australia in 2008 and has been detained since 2013 at the Villawood Immigration Detention Center in Sydney.
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In a federal lawsuit, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center said these programs make it nearly impossible for an asylum-seeker to contact an attorney prior to the interviews or before an immigration judge reviews a negative determination.
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Andy Grote told a news conference on Saturday that an initial investigation found that the man, an asylum seeker who could not be deported because he had no identification papers, is also believed to have psychological problems.
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In the airport in Doha, Qatar, Saudi asylum-seeker and rights activist Mohammad al-Otaibi was forcibly returned to the kingdom when he tried to fly with his wife to Norway in May, according to Amnesty International.
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If the asylum seeker passes her credible fear interview — as most tend to do — she's supposed to be put into standard immigration court proceedings, in front of an immigration judge, to plead her asylum case more fully.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian private security on Tuesday vacated an asylum seeker detention center in Papua New Guinea (PNG) ahead of its planned closure, detainees said, leaving about 600 refugees and asylum seekers barricaded inside and refusing to move.
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Walter Armando Jimenez Melendez, an asylum-seeker from El Salvador, arrives with his 4-year-old son, Jeremy, at La Posada Providencia shelter in San Benito, shortly after he said they were reunited following separation since late May.
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More ways to help: ActBlue Charities has set up a link that allows you to donate to eight different organizations, including the ACLU, United We Dream, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project.
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The standard for ultimately approving an asylum application, as a Supreme Court case put it, is that there's a one-in-10 (or higher) chance that the asylum seeker would be persecuted if returned to their home country.
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Charlotte and Dave Willner started their fundraising campaign after seeing the viral image of a two-year-old girl crying as her mother, an asylum seeker from Honduras, was being searched and detained at the US-Mexico border.
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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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"No one really cares if you're a real asylum-seeker or not," said Paul Kazadi, a Democratic Republic of Congo national who admits he has been paying bribes to extend his stay in South Africa for three years.
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Doctors at the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane had refused to release the one-year-old girl after completion of her treatment for serious burns, adding to pressure on the government over its tough asylum seeker policy.
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U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on May 4 in New York City as the two nations seek to repair a relationship strained by a row over an asylum seeker resettlement deal.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden has intensified its crackdown on illegal immigrants after a failed asylum-seeker killed five people in Stockholm, but the move has raised concerns that more migrants will be driven underground to join a shadowy underclass.
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Asylum seeker numbers fell to less than 30,000 last year, of which only about 2,000 were unaccompanied minors, although the fall is also due to the closing of the main route from Turkey to the EU through Greece.
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As one asylum seeker explained to me, ''if you have a 50 percent chance of surviving if you leave your country but you will definitely be killed if you stay, the choice to make the journey is easy.
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There is a simple answer to this supposed concern: if there is any doubt about whether a child is related to an asylum seeker, a maternity or paternity test, costing $99 or less, turns around in 24 hours.
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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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The government has instituted a new policy where they have said they want to criminally prosecute any person they apprehend between points of entry, even if they are an asylum seeker and even if they are a parent.
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But on other occasions, a civilian response has caused harm, as when a civilian guard shot an Eritrean asylum-seeker during a Palestinian attack at the Beersheba bus station in 2015, mistaking him for one of the assailants.
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Sweden, where an Uzbek asylum seeker mowed down pedestrians with a truck and killed five people in Stockholm last year, has kept its terrorist threat level unchanged at elevated, which is a three on a scale of five.
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"Every asylum-seeker child has now been removed from Nauru or has had their claim processed and has a clear path off the island," Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Immigration Minister David Coleman said in a joint statement.
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Having thus sealed its most porous border to irregular migrants, the EU would admit a limited number of carefully vetted Syrian refugees directly from Turkey - one for each Syrian asylum seeker Ankara took back from Greek Aegean islands.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Three asylum seeker families who sheltered US whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 say they are living in fear because of reports that Sri Lankan police officials have been in Hong Kong trying to search for them.
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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University found that by June 2018, only about 15% of immigration judge reviews found the asylum-seeker had a credible fear — about half the level seen in the second half of 2017.
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The PVV, which has been leading in opinion polls, also vowed to reverse the "Islamisation" of The Netherlands by closing the borders, shutting asylum seeker centres, banning migrants from Muslim countries and stopping Muslim women from wearing the headscarf.
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When an asylum seeker first comes to the port, as a Venezuelan woman did with her family when I was there in October, she presents her information to an organizer bearing a clipboard, who copied down key data points.
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"We did not sleep, about 30 guys at one time would keep watch for potential attacks," said an asylum seeker who asked to be identified only as Imran, due to fears his application for U.S. resettlement could be jeopardized.
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Germany remains on high alert for possible attacks by militant Islamists a year after a failed Tunisian asylum seeker killed 12 people in an attack on a Berlin Christmas market located a short distance from the Zoo train station.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian refugee advocates and opposition politicians on Saturday condemned the conviction of an Iranian asylum seeker on charges of attempted suicide, a criminal offence in Nauru where he is being held in an Australian-run detention center.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a tiny makeshift rehearsal studio in a residential neighborhood of Rome, Nigerian asylum seeker Sylvester Ezeala let slip a smile as he drummed a pair of claves to the mesmeric beat of African reggae.
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The Trump administration's framing of the Central America asylum seeker crisis is that they must engage in the mass detention of children (either separated or with their parents) because that's the only way to ensure compliance with the law.
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U.S. officials collected similar information from asylum seekers on Nauru late last month, a move that reassured observers that despite U.S. President Trump describing the asylum seeker deal with Australia as "dumb", the deal was at this stage proceeding.
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And at least one instance of a trans asylum seeker housed with men who was raped has been documented by Transgender Europe, a regional advocacy group, while media has reported on trans people being attacked in Greek refugee camps.
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MEXICO CITY, June 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A second transgender asylum seeker who was HIV-positive has died after being detained in the United States, government officials said on Monday, sparking fresh concerns over the treatment of LGBT+ immigrants.
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"We did not know whether they were serious or it was part of their scare tactics," one Sudanese asylum seeker told Reuters by mobile telephone, but declined to be identified for fear for jeopardizing his claim for U.S. resettlement.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court on Tuesday released an Iraqi asylum seeker detained last month over the fatal stabbing of a Cuban-German man that set off violent protests by far-right radicals, his lawyer and a prosecutor said.
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German intelligence agencies and police have been on high alert for potential attacks by Islamist militants since a rejected asylum seeker from Tunisia killed 12 people by ramming a truck into a Berlin Christmas market almost three years ago.
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Using data from the United Nation's refugee agency (UNHCR), Oxfam found that around 16 percent of the world's refugee and asylum seeker population had fled to countries also in conflict, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico, Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen.
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"Join us in front of the Stonewall Inn as we stand in solidarity with every immigrant, asylum seeker, refugee and every person impacted by Donald Trump's illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and un-American executive orders," the event's Facebook page reads.
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Last week a failed asylum seeker who had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State militant group killed 12 people when he rammed a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, fuelling growing criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel's immigration policy.
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"One day they put a law in place, and the next day they take it away," said Alejandro, an asylum seeker fleeing political persecution who asked to withhold his last name for fear he would be returned to Nicaragua.
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For example, if an asylum seeker can prove to U.S. authorities that he or she has a fear of torture if returned home, they would be allowed to seek protection under the Convention Against Torture in the United States.
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Dairon Rojas, GRM's lead physician and a Cuban asylum seeker himself, has been providing daily education to the residents of the Matamores camp about how to take precautions and what to do if someone in their community gets sick.
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And given that the government's natural areas of political strength are around the issue of border protection (especially asylum-seeker policy) and national security, there is every reason to suspect that the coalition profits when politics skirts xenophobic themes.
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As an asylum seeker, Ms. Waziri is not eligible for all Danish health services, so she must pay full price for a diagnosis by a doctor, which her daughter said would cost $13,500 — money the family does not have.
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"Many people think we are going to America to look for a good job," said Bertrand, 29, a Cameroonian asylum seeker and offshore welder who only gave his first name for fear of being located by the Cameroonian authorities.
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The ruling came with German authorities on high alert ahead of Tuesday's anniversary of an attack last year in which a failed Tunisian asylum-seeker plowed a truck into crowds at an outdoor Christmas market and killed 12 people.
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Their status has come under scrutiny after Rakhmat Akilov, a 22000-year-old failed asylum seeker from Uzbekistan, drove a truck into a pedestrian shopping street in Stockholm on April 22015 in the country's worst terrorism attack in decades.
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Germany has been on high alert since December 2016, when a Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links hijacked a truck, killed the driver and then plowed it into a crowded market place, killing 11 more people and injuring dozens.
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A Moroccan man who was arrested for killing two women in a knife rampage was an asylum seeker who appeared to have targeted women in Finland's first terrorism-related attack, police and a Red Cross official said on Saturday.
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Like Ms. Rodel, Mr. Snowden was represented by Mr. Tibbo, who figured that the tiny apartments of his asylum-seeker clients in some of Hong Kong's poorest neighborhoods would be the last place anyone would look for the contractor.
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"Such measures shift the burden of proof from the authorities to the asylum seeker and accelerate the procedure, leaving very little time for LGBTI asylum seekers to come forth with the real motive of their flight," the report states.
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German police are looking for an asylum-seeker from Tunisia after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of a truck that plowed into a Berlin Christmas market and killed 12 people, officials and security sources said on Wednesday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian court jailed a Syrian asylum seeker for life for murdering 20 wounded soldiers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army while fighting alongside an anti-Assad militia near the city of Homs, a court spokesman said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A viral video of an activist on board a plane in Sweden stopping the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker has cast a spotlight on Europe's deepening divisions over immigration, human rights experts said on Wednesday.
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Esmeralda, a Guatemalan asylum-seeker with a 13-year-old daughter who declined to give her full name, said a man who identified himself as a representative of the National System for Integral Family Development (DIF) approached her offering to help.
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Isabela, an asylum-seeker from El Salvador, holds her 17-year-old daughter, Dayana's hand as they walk in a park, several days after they were reunited following their separation at the US–Mexico border, in Brentwood, Maryland, on July 203.
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Celebs including Ryan Reynolds, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Chadwick Boseman, Glenn Close, Amy Schumer and more participated for the video, all reading an affidavit from a woman named Mirian, a Honduran asylum seeker who was separated from her 18-month-old son.
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Anxieties over immigration in Sweden intensified over the summer when a woman and her son were stabbed to death at an Ikea in Vasteras, and an asylum seeker from Eritrea whose request had been denied was charged with the crime.
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A Cameroonian asylum-seeker has given birth to a baby on a search and rescue vessel off the Libyan coast after she was pulled alive along with her husband from a sinking oil rig tug boat in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Related: Australia's Offshore Asylum Seeker Detention Center Is Ruled Illegal Meanwhile, Omid's wife criticized the medical response given to her husband, saying he was airlifted to Queensland from Nauru almost 24 hours after he set himself on fire on Wednesday.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The father of an 18-year-old Saudi woman asylum seeker who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her, has arrived in Bangkok and wants to meet his daughter, Thailand's immigration chief said on Tuesday.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man suspected of starting a fire in an Australian bank on Friday that injured 27 people has been identified as an asylum seeker, angering far-right groups and adding to an increasingly heated national debate over immigration.
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Since a Tunisian failed asylum seeker rammed a truck into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people, last month before fleeing to Italy where he was shot dead, Merkel has stepped up her calls for cross-border cooperation on security issues.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish court sentenced Abderrahman Bouanane, a failed Moroccan asylum seeker, to life in prison on Friday for stabbing two women to death and wounding eight other people last year in the Nordic country's first militant Islamist attack.
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Johana Medina Leon, a transgender asylum seeker from El Salvador, died Saturday after being held for six weeks at a private Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Mexico that has previously faced allegations of abusing LGBTQ+ detainees.
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ISIS CLAIMS TORONTO SHOOTING AS PROBE REPORTEDLY FINDS GUNMAN VISITED TERROR WEBSITES, LIVED IN MIDDLE EAST Local media reported the asylum seeker had vanished, but Deutsche Welle reported he was in custody and scheduled to be deported at another time.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities on Tuesday raided apartments linked to a mosque in the city of Hildesheim visited by Tunisian failed asylum seeker Anis Amri, who drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market in December and killed 12 people.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish police said on Sunday the Moroccan asylum seeker who has admitted killing two women in a knife attack last week has been identified after he gave officials a false name when he entered the country in 2016.
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"Before receiving even one asylum seeker from another European country, we want to see a precise commitment — giving the timetable, costs, means, men and resources — on how the EU plans to help us defend our external borders," Salvini said last week.
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Ana Lopez, the mother of a twenty-year-old gay asylum seeker named Nelson Avila-Lopez, wrote a letter to the U.S. government during Christmas week in 2011, two months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally deported him to Honduras.
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" For years, the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has documented Customs and Border Protection's noncompliance with asylum-seeker protections, including, in more than fifty per cent of cases, officers at ports of entry neglecting "to read the required information.
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Not only that: They would be given work permits and access to vocational training, and there would be a major initiative to develop the neighborhoods of south Tel Aviv and more evenly distribute the asylum-seeker population throughout the country.
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In 2014, Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati was beaten to death during a protest on Manus Island while in 2016, a man and a woman died in separate incidents after setting themselves on fire at the detention center on Nauru.
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SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters)) - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on May 4 in New York City as the two nations seek to repair a relationship strained by a row over an asylum seeker resettlement deal.
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SYDNEY, May 8 (Reuters) - Australia will go to the polls on July 2 after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called an election that will likely focus on the flagging economy and hot-button issues like the country's tough asylum seeker policy.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A prominent Nigerian asylum seeker and activist is being held in solitary at a Tokyo detention center, a case that has highlighted a growing crackdown on foreigners living in Japan without visas and prompted demands for her release.
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Democratic Representative Nanette Barragán challenged Nielsen over claims that the government is not turning away people seeking asylum at official ports of entry, stating that she herself on Saturday witnessed a Honduran asylum seeker being turned away by a border agent.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Monday arrested a 29-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker for supplying news and materials in support of Islamic State and who said those who do not believe in Islam "should have their throats cut", police said.
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"A Day in the Life of a Refugee", an hour-long simulation that aims to give people a taste of being an asylum-seeker, has been held for the past 11 years at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.
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The denial of relief following a cursory review of the evidence, or refusal to grant a continuance could mean the difference between life and death, such as in the case of an asylum seeker who fears return to violence and persecution.
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Iranian-Kurdish writer and asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature for a book he wrote through WhatsApp texts over five years while living in a Papua New Guinea detention center, where he is still imprisoned.
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Last month, a 26-year-old Palestinian asylum seeker was sentenced to life in prison for murdering one man and wounding six other people with a knife in a Hamburg supermarket in July, in what the court called an Islamist attack.
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Sonia Diaz-Castro, 252, an asylum seeker from Honduras, had fallen off the top of a 25-foot border wall as she entered the United States last year and was left barely able to move, with a broken elbow and pelvis.
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John Moore's dramatic image of a 2-year-old Honduran asylum seeker crying as her mother was searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border has been named the photo of the year in the 123 World Press Photo contest.
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Rodel, an asylum-seeker from the Philippines and her four-year-old daughter are among the three refugee families who sheltered, fed and looked after Snowden during his two-week stay in Hong Kong before he fled to Moscow in 2013.
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One of the images displayed will be of a crying 2-year-old Honduran asylum seeker at the United States-Mexico border this year; the photo was widely shared online and was adapted for a Time magazine cover in June.
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The justices heard arguments in the administration's appeal of a lower court ruling that a Sri Lankan asylum seeker - a farmer named Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam - had a right under the U.S. Constitution to have his case reviewed by a federal court.
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"People fleeing from persecution will use what means are available to them," said Ms. Graydon, of the Asylum Seeker Resource Center, which is working with a group of people who arrived in Australia on visas associated with the Commonwealth Games.
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In 2008, the authorities in Austria questioned Mr. Denisultanov-Kurmakayev about his contacts with a Chechen asylum seeker and whistle-blower, Umar Israilov, who had testified to the European Court of Human Rights against Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the Chechen leader.
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He told La Verita, a hard-right publication that recently released an anti-migrant comic book featuring a murderous asylum seeker, that the C.I.A. and F.B.I. had used "people like Mifsud" to spy on him and sabotage the Trump presidential campaign.
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German authorities began looking for a Tunisian asylum seeker as a suspect after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of the truck that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market in the deadliest attack on German soil since 1980.
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ROME (Reuters) - The body of an Afghan asylum seeker living in Amatrice, the town worst hit by last month's earthquake, was pulled from the rubble of the home where he had been living, Italy's national fire rescue service said on Monday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China likened claims by a Chinese asylum seeker in Australia who said he was a spy for Beijing to an absurd screenplay, accusing Taiwan's ruling party of concocting a story to boost its chances in a looming election.
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STOCKHOLM — The Uzbek man arrested in the terrorism rampage in central Stockholm last week was an asylum seeker whose application was rejected and who in December was given four weeks to leave the country, the Swedish police said on Sunday.
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BERLIN — A German Army lieutenant appears to have taken advantage of his country's chaotic system of processing migrants in 2015 to pose as a Syrian asylum seeker with the intention of carrying out an attack, the authorities said on Thursday.
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In July, a seventeen-year-old Afghan asylum seeker had attacked people with an axe on a train in Germany, and a twenty-one-year-old Syrian refugee had killed a pregnant woman with a machete, further souring public opinion.
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The Honduran asylum-seeker was bathing with four other girls in the river that divides the Mexican city of Matamoros and the US city of Brownsville last week when her 14-year-old friend was sucked in by the current.
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As an Eritrean asylum seeker, Bethelihem, 21, is not eligible for a work permit, so she got an Ethiopian friend to put his name on the business license in 230.1216 when she opened her shop in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
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German authorities began looking for a Tunisian asylum seeker as a suspect after finding an identity document under the driver's seat of the truck that plowed into a Berlin Christmas market in the deadliest attack on German soil since 1980.
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They say there is extra urgency following allegations from a Chinese asylum seeker in Australia, Wang Liqiang, who told media there he was a spy who had worked to spread Communist Party influence in Hong Kong and meddle in Taiwan politics.
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"There is no dispute under US law that asylum claims may be based on persecution conducted by nongovernmental actors," Human Rights First's Acer told Vox, as long as the asylum seeker shows her government was unwilling or unable to protect her.
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The outpouring of public support, including an overnight blockade at a Brisbane hospital where she was treated for severe burns, has been likened by some to the shocking images last year of a young Syrian asylum seeker dead on a Greek beach.
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Now he is prime suspect in this week's attack on a Berlin Christmas market and two of his brothers, Walid and Abdelkader, fear the failed asylum seeker may have been radicalised by radical Islamists while he spent almost four years behind bars.
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Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told reporters that the 1503-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, who shouted "Allahu akbar" as he attacked people on a train Monday night in southern Germany, had written notes in Pashtun that indicated he may have self-radicalised.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - When Afghan asylum seeker Yar Mohammad Haiqar found a job as a painter in a small Bavarian city, he couldn't stop smiling at what he hoped would be an opportunity to build a good life and a secure future in Germany.
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Mohammed, who the BBC reported was Eritrean-born and had come to Britain from Sudan as an asylum seeker, and El-Hassan were both found guilty of preparing for act of terrorism at London's Old Bailey court and will be sentenced next month.
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Harris, a presidential hopeful, and Blumenthal signed the letter days after BuzzFeed News reported that ICE had deleted the surveillance footage of Roxsana Hernández, a 33-year-old asylum-seeker who had traveled to the border with a Central American caravan last spring.
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The German interior ministry says that the collection of refugees' personal data will be carried out under "strict legal requirements," and that it will not be used to identify "criminal offenses" unless it is proven that an asylum-seeker used counterfeited documents.
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Refugees turned back at sea Currently, a policy of turning back asylum seeker boats at sea is supported by the two main political parties, the center-right Liberal/National Coalition and center-left Labor, but rejected by minor party the Australian Greens.
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TIJUANA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States sent the first Central American asylum seeker back to Mexico through a crossing at the border city of Tijuana on Tuesday as part of a hardened immigration policy, an official at Mexico's national migration institute said.
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Monthly asylum-seeker arrivals in Germany have fallen from roughly 200,000 a month at the peak of the refugee crisis in 2015 to 13,000 now and (despite recent tweets to the contrary by Donald Trump) crime recently hit a 25-year low.
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BERLIN, July 27 (Reuters) - A Syrian asylum seeker who blew himself up in the southern German town of Ansbach on Sunday was influenced by an unknown person in a chat conversation on his mobile phone, Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said on Wednesday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - More than three-quarters of Germans believe their country will soon be the target of terrorism, a survey showed on Friday, after a 17-year-old asylum-seeker wounded passengers on a train in an ax attack claimed by Islamic State.
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Police said the suspects had asked the victim where he was from and once when they discovered he was an asylum seeker they chased him before launching the assault which left him with a fractured skull and blood clot on his brain.
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NIJC has already won release for three such detained teens, including Ana, an El Salvadorian asylum seeker who entered the US with her two-year-old son in January and was placed with him in an unaccompanied minor shelter in New York.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An Iraqi teenager, who had come to Britain as an asylum seeker, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder after detonating a homemade bomb on a packed rush-hour London commuter train, injuring 30 people, prosecutors and police said.
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Members of a new Dutch branch of the group 'Soldiers of Odin', set up in Finland in 2015, said in a post on Facebook they had detained an asylum seeker whom they accused of assaulting women in the northern Dutch town of Winschoten.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's government has directed senior officials on how to respond to questions about political turmoil and alleged corruption in Nauru, where it has an asylum seeker detention center, documents obtained by Reuters under a Freedom of Information (FOI) request show.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Monday some refugees should be allowed to shed their asylum seeker status if they find a job and learn German, signaling his readiness to compromise in a coalition dispute about a new immigration law.
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In Bavaria, a German-Iranian teenager shot and killed nine people in a Munich shopping centre, and a failed Syrian asylum-seeker blew himself up, injuring 15, after being refused entry to a music festival being held in the town of Ansbach.
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Australia's asylum seeker legacy Since 2012, refugees arriving in Australia by boat have been transferred to offshore centers in small pacific nations such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, to make it clear they would not be settling in Australia.
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The very rare exceptions include an asylum seeker whose claim was denied after applying for protection in a country, if someone has been trafficked and if someone transited through a country that did not sign one of the major international treaties on refugees.
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"They showed me a form and told me that I needed to sign the form so that I could be reunified with my son," said a Honduran asylum seeker identified only as H.G.A. in testimony filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego.
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LONDON — An Iraqi teenager who arrived in Britain as an asylum seeker was found guilty on Friday of a bombing that sent a fireball through a London subway train last year, a case that raised questions about the country's anti-radicalization efforts.
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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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STOCKHOLM — A Swedish court on Thursday found a rejected asylum seeker guilty of terrorism and murder, and sentenced him to life in prison for a deadly attack with a beer truck that killed five people and injured nearly a dozen others last year.
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Finally, the 41-year-old asylum-seeker thought she would be safe and out of reach from the men in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez who had tortured her for 12 days in an empty home that smelled like death.
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Mojisola, whose name has been changed for privacy reasons, was taken out of her third grade class the day Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers came to arrest her mother, an asylum seeker from Togo, on various immigration infractions — none criminal in nature.
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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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If an asylum seeker fails the credible fear interview, she has the opportunity to appeal the denial to an immigration judge; if the judge finds she should in fact qualify for credible fear, she gets a full immigration court hearing as well.
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Salvini cautioned on Friday that he wasn't ready to put his name to a deal with Germany, although he said German officials had assured him that they would accept a bona fide asylum seeker from Italy for every migrant that Germany returned to Italy.
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Die Welt said the four suspects were linked to Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist ties, who hijacked a truck in December 2016, killed the driver and then ploughed into a crowded marketplace, killing 11 more people and injuring dozens of others.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - A teenage Moroccan asylum seeker who admitted on Tuesday that he had killed two women and injured eight other people in a knife attack in the Finnish town of Turku had had his application for asylum rejected before the attack, authorities said.
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The first time that one immigration officer interviewed an asylum seeker under new Trump administration protocols, the officer went back to their hotel room, turned up the shower as hot as it would go, and tried to wash off the feeling of being manipulated.
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Investigators said they suspect the driver of a truck that ploughed into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48, did so in a deliberate terrorist attack, and Chancellor Angela Merkel said he may have been an asylum-seeker.
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With donations coming in via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, the former first lady has raised more than $1.5 million with the funds going to several groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project.
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The arrests came just weeks after another Syrian asylum-seeker, said to be 19 years old and to have traveled to Germany in 2015, was arrested by special police units while in the process of building a homemade bomb for use on a German target.
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Despite the claims, Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the news agency that the suspect, a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, appeared to have self-radicalized, and that notes found in the unidentified teen's bedroom did not indicate any direct connection with the group.
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In addition to providing a "safe and stable home" during someone's immigration proceedings, a sponsor will also be responsible for going to ICE check-ins and appointments, coordinating transportation, helping to secure legal representation, if necessary, and helping the asylum-seeker access health care.
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Turning to the threat of Islamist attacks, Lindner said there was no need for tougher security laws, adding that last year's Christmas market attack in Berlin by a failed asylum seeker could probably have been averted if authorities had only implemented existing laws more strictly.
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Churches have promised to offer sanctuary to those asylum seekers who fear returning to Nauru and, on Sunday, the head of the Australian Medical Association Brian Owler called for doctors to resist the government's plans to return asylum seeker children offshore, Fairfax Media reported.
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The debate on migration will be further fueled by the acknowledgement by the authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia that a man shot dead as he tried to enter a Paris police station last week was an asylum seeker with seven identities who lived in Germany.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A Finnish court has convicted a Moroccan asylum-seeker of two terror-related murders and eight attempted murders and given him a life sentence for a stabbing attack in southwestern Finland last year, in the first terror trial in the Nordic country.
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Indeed, Morrison's policies, big picture, probably won't be all that different from Turnbull's, though his reputation as a moderate somewhat belies reality — he's socially conservative and is the architect of Australia's controversial asylum seeker policy, which turned back boats trying to reach the country's shores.
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The various agencies within DHS, including USCIS, Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, must inform each asylum seeker they come into contact with of the duty to file for asylum within one year and how to do so under these new guidelines.
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Burkhard Lischka, domestic policy spokesman for the Social Democrats in parliament, said authorities had lost track of three of those people, and he drew parallels to the case of the failed Tunisian asylum seeker, Anis Amri, who plowed a truck through the Berlin Christmas market.
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The arrest, a year after Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist links, hijacked a truck and drove it into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people, comes as security services have warned of growing numbers of radical Islamists in Germany.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Guatemalan asylum seeker left some members of a U.S. House panel visibly shaken on Wednesday with the story of her daughter's death, saying the toddler had contracted a deadly lung infection during a 20-day detention near the U.S. border with Mexico.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Violence has flared at an Australian asylum-seeker detention center in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and shots were fired when local people tried to break into the center after an argument got out of hand, media and a rights group reported on Saturday.
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"I find it very hard to believe anything that the immigration minister is saying at this stage — that's based on the fact that I was at the camp on Manus Island last week," said Jana Favero, director of advocacy at the Asylum Seeker Resource Center.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Thursday, Iranian-Kurdish writer and asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani won Australia's highest-paying literary prize for a book he wrote through WhatsApp texts while being held in a detention center in Papua New Guinea for five years.
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LONDON — An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was sentenced on Friday to life in prison in Britain after he was convicted of attempted murder in the botched bombing last September of a rush-hour train on the London Underground, which injured 30 people.
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An analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University found that in June 2018, only 15 percent of initial asylum reviews found that the asylum seeker had a credible fear of persecution, about half the proportion that had prevailed a year earlier.
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When he replied that he was an asylum seeker, the police and news reports said, they chased him through the streets and finally caught him, throwing him to the ground and repeatedly punching and kicking him in the head, even as he screamed for help.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Osman, a 19-year-old asylum-seeker from Sudan, had been on the migrant route for almost a year, traveling through Libya, Italy, and France before making it to a brand new center that opened last month in the north of Paris.
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A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker vowing "revenge on these infidels" went on an ax-and-knife rampage on a train in southern Germany, wounding five people before being shot and killed by police -- an attack that German authorities conceded Tuesday was almost impossible to prevent.
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In fact, it might be especially true of people who want to come to the US because they don't feel safe in Mexico — the people who belie the argument made by some Trump administration officials that any genuine asylum seeker would be seeking refuge in Mexico instead.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments could get 60,000 euros for each asylum-seeker they take in above their quota, or chose to pay that amount if they fall below their share, Malta proposed, in a bid to end a row over migration that has sharply divided Europe.
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Nancy Oretskin, an immigration attorney in Las Cruces, New Mexico, said one of her clients, a Salvadoran asylum seeker, told an immigration judge during his May 9 hearing in El Paso that he wanted to return home to his 6-month-old son, who was sick.
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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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BERLIN (Reuters) - The first thing that Leith Khdeir Abbas, a 27-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who arrived in Germany four months ago, plans to do after he makes the return journey on Wednesday is to kneel down and kiss the soil that he calls home.
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"On one side is the Nazi witch, on the other the anguished asylum seeker, who has a furnished home waiting for him in Spain and whose child is passing with Cristiano Ronaldo," she said, referring to the welcome Mr. Mohsen received in Spain after the story spread.
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Rome's City Hall officials declined to comment ahead of elections in June in the capital, which is currently without a mayor and being served by an emergency administration following a scandal, which saw millions of euros in state funds siphoned off from areas including asylum-seeker facilities.
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Australia's offshore asylum seeker detention camps on Nauru and Manus island in Papua New Guinea have come under a renewed spotlight recently after Papua New Guinea announced it would close the Manus immigration center, because detaining people who had committed no crime breached the country's constitution.
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SYDNEY, Australia — The body of an asylum seeker who was said to have been suffering depressive episodes was discovered on Monday by schoolchildren in Papua New Guinea, near the site of an Australian transit center for refugees, and the police said they believed he had hanged himself.
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One asylum seeker from Burundi had his asylum claim denied initially, and was held in immigration detention for twenty months, after he explained that an armed group had robbed him of $4 and his lunch, which the immigration agency regarded as "material support" for the group.
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Roylan Hernandez-Diaz A 43-year-old Cuban asylum-seeker who had gone on a hunger strike after becoming frustrated with his immigration case died of an apparent suicide after months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to an internal government report obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Honduran man flew from El Paso, Texas, to Guatemala City on a nearly empty Boeing 737 on Thursday, the first foreign asylum seeker sent back under a U.S. agreement designating Guatemala as a so-called safe third country for people fleeing persecution.
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It also includes reviving a disputed plan for preventive custody of potentially dangerous individuals, even if they have not committed a crime, which was put forward by Kurz's coalition government with the far right after a fatal stabbing apparently committed by an asylum seeker in February.
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The current immigration debate has brought out some of the worst instincts in our nation; some mocking a helpless asylum seeker, others – including the former director of the CIA – cynically expropriating genocidal imagery of the Nazi Holocaust to becloud the facts and superheat an already toxic political discourse.
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DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) - A German court sentenced a Syrian asylum seeker to nine and a half years in prison on Thursday over the fatal stabbing of a man in the eastern city of Chemnitz last year that triggered the worst far-right riots Germany had seen for decades.
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But concerns about security have mounted after mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve 2015, a spate of violent attacks on civilians last summer and an Islamist-inspired attack in which a failed asylum seeker rammed a truck into a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people.
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The Reuters analysis found that once an asylum-seeker is directed to wait in Mexico, there is an extremely small likelihood that they will win an appeal to wait in the U.S. instead of cites like Tijuana or Juarez, both with high rates of gang violence and drug cartels.
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Wilhen Hill Barrientos, a Guatemalan asylum seeker and a plaintiff in the lawsuit against CoreCivic's Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, said that he had to either work for a few cents an hour or go without basic things like soap, which he could get only through the commissary.
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Claim of intervention: An asylum seeker who says he is a disillusioned Chinese intelligence operative has told the Australian authorities that China's military intelligence agencies are directly intervening in politics in Hong Kong as well as in Taiwan, buying media coverage, infiltrating universities and funneling donations to favored candidates.
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The concerns shared by immigration lawyers span the gamut from how to communicate with asylum seekers, many of whom are staying in shelters in Tijuana, Mexico, to whether attorneys can practice law in another country for profit to how, generally, these cases might differ from other asylum-seeker cases.
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According to documents reviewed by CNN, an asylum seeker who presented himself at the San Ysidro port of entry received paperwork that had two different dates -- a date to appear before an immigration judge (March 20) and a separate date to appear at the port of entry (March 30).
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Knowing the risks associated with unlawful employment, Joan Hodges-Wu, founder and director of the Asylum Seeker Project, a Washington, DC-based organization that helps asylum seekers apply for work permits, advises against working on a cash-only basis and ensuring that any job they take is above board.
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In 2019, one gay Saudi asylum seeker, Abdullah Bentalab, told the Montreal Gazette that after his parents saw a photo of him marching in a Pride parade in London, where he was spending the summer learning English, his father beat him and threatened to turn him in to the police.
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An asylum officer's primary job is to make sure an asylum seeker wouldn't be persecuted if they're turned away from the US: to uphold the fundamental principle of refugee law called non-refoulement, that a government must not send a migrant back to a country where they'd be persecuted or imperiled.
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It's not clear if the White House envisions passing a new regulation — which would take months — or if it wants USCIS to just quietly start denying work permits based on whether the applicant is an asylum seeker who just got to the US or has some other form of legal status.
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On several recent days, not one asylum seeker has been here to admire the scores of colorful children's drawings lining one wall, to eat the hot meals served up by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, to receive the medical checkups offered by local non-profit One Hundred Angels.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the government on behalf of a Congolese asylum seeker who turned herself in to border guards in California only to have her 7-year-old daughter taken from her and housed in government custody more than 2,000 miles away in Chicago for months.
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In March, immigration officers forced a 27-year-old asylum-seeker from El Salvador to stay in Mexico as part of the Remain in Mexico policy, even though he showed them paperwork from his doctor that said he has the cognitive age of a four-year-old, The Guardian reported Sunday.
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During this time, Merkel will try to reach a migration deal with the European Union, amidst increased opposition animated by two recent controversies: allegations that civil servants granted asylum to migrants for money and the brutal murder of a 14-year-old girl in western Germany by an Iraqi asylum-seeker.
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Once an asylum seeker has made a formal application, the law requires their examination by a physician and vaccination; but, according to the CDC, there is very little data on the health problems of asylees after they migrate to the U.S. Examining and caring for refugees is a gargantuan task.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the government on behalf of a Congolese asylum seeker who turned herself in to border guards in California only to have her 7-year-old daughter taken from her and housed in government custody more than 2,000 miles away in Chicago for months.
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BERLIN/BASTAD, Sweden/ATHENS, (Reuters) - As Ramadan began in Germany on Monday, Syrian asylum seeker Khairallah Swaid said he would pray for a reunion with his wife, who is stranded at a camp in Greece, and crave his mother's makloubeh, a meat and rice dish served during the fasting month.
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The Konstanz gunman who killed one person and injured three others in a nightclub in southern Germany on Sunday was an Iraqi citizen who had lived in the country for a long time and was not an asylum seeker, police said in a later statement, ruling out terrorism as a motive.
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At the beginning of the day, CBP officials tell their counterparts in Mexico how many people will be allowed to enter and seek asylum; INM, the Mexican agency, passes on that information to the asylum seeker who officially manages the notebook; and the manager reads that many names off the list.
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Read: Border Force Act entrenches secrecy around Australia's asylum seeker regime "The dehumanization of the asylum seekers by Minister Dutton and others referring to these people as 'illegals', combined with cloaking them in secrecy in offshore processing, has made it more difficult for the Australian public to identify with these people," Owler said.
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In the video, created by actor Maggie Gyllenhaal and titled "My Name Is Mirian," celebrities such as Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Chadwick Boseman, Kumail Nanjiani, and many more take turns reading a note from Mirian, a Honduran asylum seeker who was separated from her 18-month-old son at the Texas border in February.
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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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The current policy was put in place by then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2013, who stated no asylum seeker arriving by boat would ever settle in Australia, and made a deal with Papua New Guinea to expand the Manus center, give the country aid money, and pay "resettlement costs" for genuine refugees.
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The new figures were released just weeks after a terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Berlin, in which 220 people were killed by a Tunisian asylum seeker, and days after the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel proposed policy changes that would increase the police's ability to monitor migrants and hasten deportations.
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The response of Merkel's government, and of most of the German press, has been measured, emphasizing the unique aspects of each attack: the Munich shooting turned out to be a case of right-wing, rather than Islamist, extremism; the kebab-shop murder a crime of passion; the Syrian asylum seeker a psychiatric case.
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Lindsay M. Harris is an assistant professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia — David A. Clarke School of Law and serves as vice chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's National Asylum and Refugee Committee and as vice chair of the Board of the Asylum Seeker Assistance Project.
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The news is the latest to contribute to hardening public opinion towards migrants in Germany, particularly following news that Anis Amri, the man suspected of being responsible for a lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market earlier in December and later shot dead by police in Milan, was a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia.
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But he said that data suggested it was "not primarily the asylum seeker or refugee population that is more engaged in criminal activities, but the non-German population at large," pointing to official statistics that showed that people without German citizenship were suspects in nearly 35 percent of criminal charges in Germany last year.
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Prosecutors said that the two soldiers, and a third suspect identified as a student from the western city of Offenbach who was also arrested last month, had intended "to contribute to the general sense of a threat" by staging a terrorist attack that would appear to have been carried out by a registered asylum seeker.
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In June, three men — Khuram Shazad Butt, a British citizen born in Pakistan; Rachid Redouane, a failed asylum seeker who said he was Moroccan or Libyan; and Youssef Zaghba, an Italian of Moroccan ancestry — drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and then used knives to attack people around the nearby Borough Market.
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Accordingly, some Trump administration officials have tried to push an agenda to make it easier for the US to deny "credible fear" claims; deport Central American children who arrive unaccompanied and prosecute relatives living in the US who helped pay for them to come; separate families that arrive together, and prosecute asylum seeker parents.
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Iranian detainee sets himself on fire Meanwhile, an 23-year-old Iranian asylum seeker housed in another Australian offshore detention camp on the island nation of Nauru, several hundred miles from Papua New Guinea, is in critical condition after setting himself on fire in front of representatives from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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Roberto Sanchez, 201, was handed the list, which is maintained in a thick, battered white notebook with a spine that's held together by duct tape, by another migrant whose time to apply for asylum had arrived, and when it's his turn to meet with US border authorities, Sanchez'll pass the responsibility to another waiting asylum-seeker.
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Federal prosecutors described the man as a 26-year-old "radical Islamist" who was organizing an attack designed to "kill and injure a maximum number of people," in a statement obtained by the AP. Martin Steltner, a spokesman for Berlin state prosecutors, said the man had entered Germany in 2014 as an asylum seeker and resided under "protected" status.
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The emotions of that debate were on display Wednesday during a congressional hearing in Washington, where a Guatemalan asylum seeker brought U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tears and left others visibly shaken with the story of her 1303-month-old daughter's death, saying she had contracted a deadly lung infection during a 20-day detention.
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"Before receiving even one asylum seeker from another European country, we want to see a precise commitment giving the timetable, costs, means, men and resources on how the EU plans to help us defend our external borders," he told reporters after meeting the deputy premier of Libya, from where most migrants board people smugglers' boats for Europe.
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Her comments, according to a post shared on the right-wing Resistance of German Patriots' Facebook page, concerned the arrest of an asylum seeker for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old student in Freiburg—a crime that had shocked Germany and sparked a national debate about the potential threat posed by the country's migrant influx.
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Even then, as a spokesperson for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada explained, it's probable that the asylum seeker in question was a child of people who were seeking asylum because they were persecuted in another country — not someone who was claiming to have been persecuted in the US. Could that change under a Trump administration?
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I began traveling the world and exploring the beauty of my community, a beauty that existed when I was a child but that I had never seen: A gay Nigerian mother and their daughter in England; gay Kenyan twins in Germany; transgender Burundian women in Canada; a gay Somali asylum seeker in Sweden; and many more.
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Related: Australia's Offshore Asylum Seeker Detention Center Is Ruled Illegal Following events in Nauru on Wednesday, he stressed the success of Australia's hardline asylum policy — which has been strongly criticized by the United Nations and human rights agencies — adding that anyone who thought self-harm or political protest could help get them to Australia was wrong, reported the Guardian.
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Her comments, according to a post shared on the right-wing Resistance of German Patriots' Facebook page, concerned the arrest of an asylum seeker for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old student in Freiburg – a crime that had shocked Germany and sparked a national debate about the potential threat posed by the country's migrant influx.
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Additionally, it opens the door for asylum officers to deny an asylum seeker if she's been convicted of illegal entry after crossing into the US between ports of entry (something that, in theory, the Trump administration is still seeking to prosecute all border crossers for under its "zero tolerance" policy) even if she meets all the above standards.
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Not only was the attorney general's statement not based on facts — at least not on facts made publicly available, or that anyone even claimed exist, and which statement runs in stark contrast to my six years of on-the-ground experience — but that statement had nothing to do with the truthfulness of the individual asylum seeker present before the court.
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And the Texas Tribune reported that one asylum-seeker had agreed to be removed voluntarily "out of desperation" because he was told he'd be reunited with his daughter if he did — a claim that Department of Homeland Security officials were unable to verify or disprove without getting the man's name or case number (which the Texas Tribune declined to provide).
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The chief suspect in the brutal attack on a Christmas market at the heart of Berlin is a Tunisian asylum-seeker, Anis Amri, who had already been the subject of an earlier German terror investigation but had been released instead of being deported, despite being in touch with radical Islamists, including a recruitment network for ISIS operating in Germany, German security officials told CNN.
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On Tuesday, advocates from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund addressed a letter to DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other administration officials on behalf of two women—asylum-seeker Laura Monterrosa-Flores and another woman, whom they identify only as S.G.S.—who both say they were sexually abused, harassed, and intimidated by guards at the T. Don Hutto facility who continue to work there.
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In his June ruling in Matter of A-B-, restricting asylum for victims of gang and domestic violence, Sessions made it clear that he wanted the same standards to be used for credible fear screenings as well — ending the practice of allowing an asylum seeker to pass a credible fear screening even if it was unclear if her gang persecution would ultimately qualify her for asylum.
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LORDSBURG, New Mexico — The Department of Homeland Security has told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that they will not be allowed to speak with Customs and Border Protection agents involved in the apprehension and detention of Jakelin Caal, the 7-year-old Guatemalan asylum-seeker who died in CBP custody earlier this month, during their visit Tuesday to the remote station where her illness was first treated.
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EOIR must go further and issue guidance to immigration judges that makes clear that where an individual never received notice of the requirement to file within one year and subsequently misses the deadline because they lacked a timely hearing, filing past the one-year mark should be excused and the asylum seeker remains eligible for asylum and receives a chance to prove that she meets the refugee definition.
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A Honduran asylum-seeker jumps the border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, and crosses into the US. The White House has directed the Department of Homeland Security to implement a deal to send asylum-seekers to Honduras by January, the second in a series of controversial agreements made with Central American countries to deport immigrants seeking protection at the southern border, according to a government document obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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Scott Stewart, a Department of Justice attorney who often represents the government on major immigration cases, told the panel that the policy was an "important executive branch initiative" aimed at solving "a significant immigration crisis facing the US." The two sides sparred over technical matters of whether the individuals being returned to Mexico were exempt from a statute that allows immigration officials to return an asylum-seeker to the contiguous country they arrived from.
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"We are the voice within your heart / Plus 11 million / So listen, so listen," one of the songs went, referring to the 11 million undocumented immigrants estimated to be living in the US. Emilia Feldman, 213, a Jewish Latina organizer with Movimiento Cosecha, spoke of how personal this movement feels; her grandparents were Holocaust survivors, and her friend, an asylum-seeker from Honduras, has been in a detention center for six months.
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To qualify for asylum in the United States a victim of domestic violence often must show that she is a member of what's known as a Particular Social Group, which is widely considered a group that can be clearly defined (particularity), recognized as a distinct group within the society in question (social distinction), and which the asylum seeker cannot leave or should not be required to leave because membership is fundamental to her identity (immutability).
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are trying to establish whether a Moroccan asylum seeker arrested when found to have non-matching identification documents after returning from Brussels is linked to the attackers who carried out bombings in the Belgian capital, prosecutors said on Friday The prosecutor's office in Giessen said the mobile phone of the 28-year-old man arrested on Thursday in the town north of Frankfurt is being analyzed by investigators and police have asked a judge to issue an extended arrest warrant.
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