They include sending asylum-seekers to Guatemala to seek protection there and fast-tracking the deportation of Mexican asylum seekers.
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Muslim asylum seekers were 11 percentage points less likely to be accepted than Christian asylum seekers who had similar profiles otherwise.
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Most recently, the increase in detention has been due to an uptick in incarcerating asylum seekers: In fiscal year 2010, 15,683 asylum seekers (20143 percent of all asylum seekers in court proceedings) were detained, which jumped to 44,228 (77 percent of asylum seekers in court proceedings) in fiscal year 2014, according to the Human Rights First report.
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About 5,000 asylum seekers arrived in Norway in 2015 via Russia, out of the total 31,000 asylum seekers that came last year.
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MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS ACCORD DOES NOT FORESEE RETURN OF GUATEMALAN ASYLUM SEEKERS TO MEXICO, AND HONDURAN AND SALVADORAN ASYLUM SEEKERS TO GUATEMALA
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Angela Merkel is clamping down on asylum seekers as election nears Angela Merkel is clamping down on asylum seekers as election nears German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to introduce new measures aimed at speeding up the deportation of failed asylum seekers.
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The principle states that asylum seekers should receive no advantage from taking a boat to Australia over asylum seekers who did not make that journey.
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But you've heard that the ports of entry into the US can't process asylum seekers quickly and that border officials sometimes refuse to accept asylum seekers.
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Guatemala is not only producing large numbers of asylum seekers arriving at the US border, it also lacks the capability to receive asylum seekers en masse.
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And Mexico isn't necessarily a safe place for LGBTQ asylum-seekers — or, considering the Mexican government's treatment of Central American migrants, for asylum-seekers in general.
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U.S. immigration officials have postponed interviews with asylum seekers on Nauru, asylum seekers and an official told Reuters, indicating Washington is already blocking progress on the deal.
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Known only by their first names, Priya and Nadesalingam arrived in Australia separately as asylum-seekers in 2012 and 2013, before Canberra began holding asylum-seekers offshore.
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Guatemala is not only producing large numbers of asylum seekers arriving at the US border, but it also lacks the capability to receive asylum seekers en masse.
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Asylum seekers: As the U.S. tightens its policies at the southern border, many asylum seekers are contemplating hiring smugglers in Mexico, despite the dangers and increasing costs.
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San Ysidro theoretically has space for 300 asylum seekers, but that's reduced whenever people have to be segregated due to disease or safety concerns (like LGBT asylum seekers).
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The rare move underscored the strain caused by the inflow of asylum seekers in Canada, which has seen more than 30,000 asylum seekers illegally crossing the Canada-U.
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Montreal's Olympic Stadium is being used as a center for housing hundreds of asylum seekers, and a camp is being built for 2900 asylum seekers near the border.
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DHS officials say the asylum-seekers are fine with going to Guatemala: "All asylum-seekers who are sent to Guatemala have chosen to go," an agency spokesperson said.
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Asylum seekers are being turned away illegally at the U.S.-Mexico border Asylum seekers are being turned away illegally at the U.S.-Mexico border This segment originally aired Feb.
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The government, which has set aside 65 billion Swedish crowns ($7 billion) to take care of asylum-seekers and refugees, is cutting welfare payments and accommodation for asylum-seekers.
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The proposed law calls for agreements with source countries to send failed asylum-seekers home quickly, and would allocate asylum-seekers among EU countries, lightening the burden on Mediterranean states.
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It's not yet clear whether they'll be providing camps or other places for asylum-seekers to stay, or how they can guarantee the safety of asylum-seekers while in Mexico.
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Kunasek, 41, called for a night-time curfew for asylum seekers in 2016 and curbing asylum seekers' access to health services in 2015, according to human rights group SOS Mitmensch.
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A recent report by Human Rights First details how detention of asylum seekers has increased despite international norms and laws that recognize that asylum seekers should generally not be detained.
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Officials received guidance indicating Mexican asylum-seekers were to be included in a controversial program that began sending asylum-seekers to Guatemala in late November, according to the news outlet.
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MRI, which supports eight asylum seekers and refugees with safe housing, says much more is needed and aims to provide safe housing for more than 150 LGBTi asylum seekers by 2019.
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Most asylum-seekers pass initial screenings, but most of those still ultimately lose their cases — but asylum-seekers who have lawyers are much, much more likely to have their cases approved.
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They are not asylum seekers — they are publicity seekers.
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But it can't control how individual asylum officers evaluate the screening interviews of individual asylum-seekers — or what individual border and detention officers say to asylum-seekers about what their rights are.
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Last month the country's National Assembly passed a measure that would speed up the deportation process for failed asylum seekers and extend the length of time failed asylum seekers can be detained.
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That assistance, the San Diego lawsuit said, had long included helping asylum seekers locate contact information for relatives residing in the U.S. and facilitating phone calls between asylum seekers and those relatives.
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Since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, the number of asylum-seekers coming from the U.S. has risen—from February 2017 to December 2019, we saw just over 54,000 asylum-seekers.
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Human Rights First has documented border agents' unlawful rejection of asylum seekers and the failure of U.S. immigration officers to release from detention asylum seekers who meet the relevant asylum parole standards.
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Crimes like the sexual assaults of women in Germany on New Year's Eve, in which the authorities said asylum seekers were involved, led Chancellor Angela Merkel to propose tougher laws regulating asylum seekers.
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Since the number of asylum seekers started to rise in 2011, Bavaria has raised the age for compulsory education for asylum seekers and refugees to 21, against 18 in the other 15 states.
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End prosecutions of asylum seekers Congress should pass a law clarifying that it is unlawful to prosecute asylum seekers for entering the U.S. without documents, so-called ''illegal entry" or "illegal re-entry.
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The volunteers swarm the asylum seekers, offering blankets and water.
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If their petitions are denied, asylum seekers can be deported.
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Many asylum seekers are looking to escape poverty and violence.
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The detention center has been housing asylum seekers since 2012.
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The question is what the US does with asylum seekers.
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But in practice, do asylum seekers actually have that option?
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Some asylum seekers said the latest developments gave them hope.
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Venezuelans are the top asylum seekers in the United States.
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This isn't usually how the US has treated asylum seekers.
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A total of 170 asylum seekers arrived in recent days.
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More than 160,000 asylum seekers arrived in Sweden last year.
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She has represented detained asylum seekers in Texas since 2012.
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This would include asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America.
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And international law requires countries to hear asylum seekers' requests.
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But asylum seekers from Mexico and Haiti fared even worse.
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In my experience, most asylum seekers struggle to support themselves.
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Asylum seekers are usually more or less on their own.
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Many people become Refugees, Internally Displaced, Asylum Seekers, or Stateless.
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If asylum seekers' claims are rejected, they should be deported.
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Last year, the country saw 100,000 asylum seekers, a record.
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Refugees and asylum seekers are among those who are exempt.
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South Korea has long been averse to accepting asylum seekers.
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But more than 20% of Afghan asylum seekers are rejected.
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The United States desperately needs international assistance with asylum seekers.
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So far, 103 asylum seekers have been deported to Guatemala.
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There are 1,389 asylum seekers currently in detention in Australia.
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There were another 2.8 million asylum seekers, the report said.
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In the meantime, asylum seekers remain in dangerous, undignified conditions.
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For Trump, these could be asylum seekers or undocumented migrants.
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Consequently, the number of asylum seekers began to rise again.
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Central American asylum seekers have to get through Mexico first.
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They expanded the use of detention for all asylum seekers.
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When she screened potential asylum-seekers in Mexico, she told the ones who didn't have good claims not to even attempt it because of how tough the administration had made it for asylum-seekers.
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These include the denial of protection to battered women and other victims of non-governmental persecutors, turning back asylum seekers at border posts, criminal prosecution of asylum seekers, and the massive overuse of detention.
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More from VICE: Sweden's First Pride Festival for Asylum Seekers Photos from the Uppsala Pride Parade for Asylum Seekers 'Queer: A Graphic History' Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender
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During the first two months of 2017, Canadian police intercepted 1,134 asylum seekers as they crossed the Canadian border illegally - nearly half the total number of asylum seekers intercepted last year, Canadian government data showed.
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This year, he said asylum-seekers brought diseases like the "ziki-fly," and his administration has pushed to cut welfare benefits for some asylum-seekers, frustrating members of a community that has grown in Maine.
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Practically, for now, that means that asylum seekers may continue to seek protection without these restrictions in California and Arizona, but asylum seekers in Texas and New Mexico will be subject to the asylum rule.
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True asylum seekers have no need to cross the border illegally.
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HOW MANY ASYLUM SEEKERS LIVE IN AUSTRALIAN-RUN OFFSHORE DETENTION CENTERS?
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Refugees and asylum-seekers are not impacted by the proposed changes.
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Instead, officers could tell asylum seekers that they were at capacity.
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Port officers aren't hired to spend their days processing asylum seekers.
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Last year 276 asylum-seekers were given church asylum in Bavaria.
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Well, first asylum-seekers ran into a massively backlogged US system.
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US law requires that asylum-seekers be given a fair hearing.
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Asylum seekers camp near the US-Mexico border checkpoint in Tijuana.
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As many as one million asylum seekers entered Germany last year.
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Toronto's mayor says the city cannot accommodate any more asylum seekers.
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It is not uncommon for asylum-seekers to have to wait.
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But fewer than 500 asylum-seekers have been moved so far.
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A camp for refugees and asylum seekers is located in Bicske.
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Currently, asylum seekers can stay in the U.S. during that time.
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Past Australian efforts to resettle asylum seekers elsewhere ran into hurdles.
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Asylum-seekers who flout the law should face prison or deportation.
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Of those, 10 are asylum seekers, the government announced this week.
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Right-wing extremists and asylum seekers have previously clashed in Bautzen.
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Debout, referring to violence women migrants and asylum-seekers experience on
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France Terre d'Asile, a group that supports asylum-seekers in France.
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Often, asylum seekers present themselves to border authorities and request asylum.
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But throw in extenuating circumstances, and asylum seekers could wait years.
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Asylum seekers also tend to be of different nationalities than refugees.
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The movement even took on Obama's position on foreign asylum seekers.
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It's actually illegal to dismiss asylum seekers without hearing their cases.
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Now, for Central American asylum seekers, the path is more circuitous.
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Some Germans feel it is a duty to welcome asylum-seekers.
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Or to those asylum seekers turned away or returned to Mexico.
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Returning asylum seekers to Mexico and stranding them there is illegal.
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And it's not clear whether it actually applies to asylum seekers.
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More than 190,000 asylum seekers are living in state-funded shelters.
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More than 27,000 asylum seekers have walked across the Canada-U.
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Graphic on the impact asylum seekers are having in Canada: tmsnrt.
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Still, Sessions's decision has obviously changed the landscape for asylum seekers.
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More than 30,000 asylum seekers have illegally crossed the Canada-U.
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She said she hopes more asylum seekers will be granted bond.
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Mr. Gelernt said habeas petitions from asylum seekers would be rare.
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The Commonwealth has routinely settled compensation claims brought by asylum seekers.
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Among them are Medicaid expansion and food stamps for asylum seekers.
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The Trump administration plans to send asylum seekers back to Mexico.
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Roughly 203,220 Belgians volunteer there to help migrants and asylum seekers.
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Cracking down on asylum-seekers — particularly Central American children and families.
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She spearheaded efforts to crack down on migrants and asylum seekers.
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Most of them have sought status as refugees or asylum seekers.
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Earlier this month, Trinidad deported more than 80 Venezuelan asylum seekers.
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Greece wants asylum seekers quickly taken out of its detention centers.
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Immigration — particularly that of asylum seekers — loomed over the 2018 elections.
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It also expressed concern over Hungary's detention centers for asylum seekers.
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He wants to close mosques and close borders to asylum seekers.
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The flow of asylum seekers out of Eritrea remains consistently high.
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Both asylum-seekers said they left India because of political persecution.
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About 4,000 asylum seekers had already withdrawn their applications, she said.
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Now refugees and asylum seekers stream across the union's porous borders.
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France has increased available housing for asylum-seekers in recent years.
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Mexico, meanwhile, has been forced to accept more asylum seekers instead.
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Asylum seekers will also get a significant chop under the bill.
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"Before there was a small possibility for asylum seekers," he said.
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More than 173,217 asylum seekers walked across the border in January.
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For LGBTQ immigrants and asylum seekers, that presents a major problem.
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Nicole Ramos, project coordinator for the Border Rights Project, which works with asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico, said she frequently encounters asylum seekers who were denied entry into the U.S. The news of such rejections, and of Trump's refugee bans, prompted many prospective asylum seekers to stop even trying to enter the country because they believe they, too, will be turned away.
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Despite refugee and human rights law prohibitions on rejecting and punishing people for seeking protection, the United States is turning asylum seekers away at its border, ripping children from the arms of asylum-seeking parents, criminally prosecuting asylum seekers for "illegal entry," and holding asylum seekers in immigration jails for long periods even if they meet the government's own release standards.
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"This is the lowest number of asylum seekers coming to Norway since the first four months of 1997, when 499 asylum seekers came," a spokesperson for the UDI said, according to a translation by The Local.
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The process began this week of deporting failed Afghan asylum seekers following an agreement between the European Union and Afghanistan in October with Norway deporting about 13, Sweden about nine and Germany about 34 asylum seekers.
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For asylum seekers, the search for shelter can be an immediate and pressing need, according to Aimee Miller, a social worker at Human Rights First, a Washington-based organization that provides legal assistance to asylum seekers.
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With calls for change mounting, Ireland's International Protections Office has committed to speed up decisions for asylum seekers while the Irish Supreme Court in May 2017 ruled denying asylum seekers the right to work was unconstitutional.
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"We are safe not despite the fact we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers - we are safe because we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers," O'Rourke said in El Paso on Saturday.
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But as several asylum seekers told Vox, the standard for allowing asylum seekers to stay in the US is almost impossibly high, and decisions to allow people to stay are sometimes overturned by higher-level officials.
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On April 17, Attorney General William Barr decided that asylum seekers who are in detention but who have passed their initial interviews would not be eligible for bond, opening the possibility of indefinite detention for asylum seekers.
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Reality check: The Trump administration has taken numerous steps to curtail asylum seekers, including attempting to block migrants who illegally cross the border from asylum and forcing some asylum seekers to await a case decision in Mexico.
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But the UN, as well as a number of human rights groups have said returning asylum seekers to Turkey from Greece would be illegal, partly because it denies asylum seekers the right to an individual claim assessment.
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Many asylum seekers without friends or family in the US can end up on the street, said Tiffany Nelms, who runs the Asylee Women Enterprise in Baltimore, another of the critical nonprofits catering to asylum seekers' needs.
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Nigerian asylum seekers arrive to Canada Many of the asylum seekers take buses or taxis to a US border town, and walk over to the other side of the border, where they are intercepted by Canadian officials.
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Challengers, including 11 asylum seekers who were returned to Mexico and several immigration advocacy groups, say the program, called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), violates U.S. immigration law and international obligations on the treatment of asylum seekers.
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The EU-Turkey deal does not explicitly forbid asylum-seekers from leaving the islands until claims are assessed but the process takes months and stranded asylum-seekers grow desperate and frustrated, said charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
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The nationalities and identities of the asylum-seekers were not immediately known.
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During the period I studied, asylum seekers planned 32 separate terrorist attacks.
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In credible fear interviews, about 75 percent of all asylum seekers pass.
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Is this picture supposed to remind Mexican asylum seekers what they've lost?
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But it's possible that some asylum-seekers might be willing to wait.
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The aim is to train up to 200 asylum seekers this year.
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Rather, the deal excludes the vast majority of asylum-seekers in Greece.
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African asylum seekers in Israel are protesting a plan to deport them.
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This week, the university suspended its program for refugees and asylum seekers.
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After making a claim, asylum seekers are usually kept in detention centers.
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The issue of the African asylum seekers has long roiled Israeli society.
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Many asylum seekers didn't trust that the list would actually be enforced.
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Twenty-two of those 32 men arrested so far are asylum-seekers.
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Over 1,500 asylum seekers have left the centres in November, officials said.
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Asylum-seekers wait for their names to be called at 5 a.m.
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Like other asylum-seekers in limbo in Greece, they are barely coping.
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More than 2,500 asylum-seekers are on Samos, in facilities for 700.
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US law does require that asylum-seekers be given a fair hearing.
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"The majority of those people being apprehended are asylum-seekers," he said.
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The battered notebook where the waiting list of asylum-seekers is kept.
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It has also eliminated the right to hearings for certain asylum-seekers.
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And Sweden's government is planning to expel up to 2300,22017 asylum-seekers.
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Shooting tear gas at asylum seekers lacks a basic level of humanity.
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The government doesn't just make life miserable for asylum seekers and refugees.
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Asylum-seekers will be arrested before officials consider their claims, he warned.
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Releasing asylum seekers from custody isn't as easy as letting them out.
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It has little to do with the absolute numbers of asylum seekers.
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The largest numbers of asylum seekers were from Eritrea, Pakistan then Syria.
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Sealing the border to asylum-seekers could create huge bottlenecks in Greece.
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Meanwhile, Soros prioritized support for charities that help migrants and asylum seekers.
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Meanwhile, Soros prioritised support for charities that help migrants and asylum seekers.
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Hundreds of asylum seekers are returned every day under the expanded program.
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The vast majority of asylum seekers these days are Haitian, officials say.
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Twin Falls knows more about asylum-seekers than many towns its size.
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Finland received 32,500 asylum seekers last year, most of them from Iraq.
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Phil, his sister, and mother headed for safety as successful asylum seekers.
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Germany took in over 1 million asylum seekers in the same period.
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This would not leave asylum seekers without a way to avoid persecution.
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The number of asylum-seekers entering Germany has drastically declined from the
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These communities would serve as temporary respites for migrants and asylum seekers.
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Each day, the US determines how many asylum seekers they will accept.
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The UNHCR has registered more than 44,000 as refugees and asylum seekers.
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Historically, asylum seekers from Guatemala have low odds of gaining US asylum.
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Ms. Neistat described the health care provided to asylum seekers as atrocious.
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It does not affect lawful permanent residents, asylum-seekers, refugees, or children.
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Especially disturbing is CBP officers' openly-expressed skepticism about asylum seekers' claims.
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There have also been attacks on asylum seekers and their accommodation facilities.
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"Billions have been spent on asylum seekers, Brussels and Africa," he added.
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Finally, the bill would diminish humanitarian protections for asylum seekers and children.
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The New Democracy coalition promised to resolve the backlog of asylum seekers.
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The roughly 1,700 asylum seekers — including 400 kids — share 90 portable toilets.
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More than 90 percent of Yemeni asylum seekers on Jeju are men.
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Since then, the Thanksgiving for queer asylum seekers has become a tradition.
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But it's possible that some asylum seekers might be willing to wait.
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Power is condemning lawful asylum seekers to a system designed for criminals.
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The asylum seekers came from countries including Ethiopia, Sudan, Iraq, and Syria.
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Asylum seekers with criminal records are not allowed to work in Denmark.
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Many of the asylum seekers at the border are from Central America.
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New asylum-seekers, however, appear to be temporarily benefiting from the changes.
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Along Turkey's border, asylum seekers made signs out of beat-up cardboard.
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Border inspectors late Monday began allowing some asylum seekers into the country.
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Relatively few asylum seekers are granted permanent entry into the United States.
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We have asylum seekers coming to the center just about every day.
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The law will likely toughen the lives of would-be asylum seekers.
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Now, only about 300 asylum seekers remain in the town of 36,000.
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By vilifying immigrants and asylum seekers, he hopes to galvanize his base.
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I am particularly disconcerted by Ries's conflation of asylum seekers and refugees.
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Go deeper: Trump administration pushes new fees for asylum seekers, citizen applicants
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Asylum-seekers wait for an appointment date with US authorities in Tijuana.
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Yet asylum seekers still believe they have a better chance in Canada.
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About 140 asylum seekers had set up an encampment at the border.
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The vast majority of Finland's asylum seekers last year came from Iraq.
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In 2014, two Tamil asylum seekers set themselves ablaze in separate incidents.
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The system also gives rejected asylum seekers an incentive to try again.
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We elevated the plight and the promise of refugees and asylum seekers.
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More than 60% of asylum seekers from Sudan were granted similar status.
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About 32,000 asylum seekers, mostly from Iraq, came to Finland last year.
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The asylum-seekers are primarily from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Cuba.
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Where does the Trump administration want these same asylum seekers to wait?
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More than 160,000 refugees and asylum seekers entered the country that year.
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Judges do not have to give a full hearing to asylum seekers.
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There are nearly 20 million refugees and asylum-seekers around the world.
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Serious doubts remain over whether Mexico can keep vulnerable asylum seekers safe.
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And in many parts of the border, Border Patrol agents have a lot more capacity to process asylum seekers who've entered illegally than CBP agents at ports of entry do to process asylum seekers trying to enter legally.
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The conditions of the facilities housing adult asylum seekers also are concerning, with jail-like settings possibly triggering memories of past mistreatment, increasing the risk of re-traumatization or causing asylum seekers prematurely to terminate their asylum claims.
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The issue of asylum seekers in Pacific detention camps has been a growing problem for Turnbull, with Papua New Guinea announcing the closure of a detention center, and the deaths of asylum seekers in a camp on Nauru.
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It sends asylum-seekers to places where housing is cheap and plentiful (houses in Middlesbrough sold for less than half Britain's average in December 2015; many of the houses asylum-seekers now live in were previously boarded up).
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Asylum seekers: Both Krikorian and Stein stressed that asylum seekers should file their claims in their countries of origin or in Mexico to remove burden from the American justice system and keep illegitimate claims out of the country.
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Read: How Trump Is Winning His War on Asylum Seekers But over the past five years, a growing number of asylum-seekers have risked the trek as Europe's closed-door immigration policies forced them to seek new options.
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And his asylum officers participated in Trump's efforts to crack down on asylum-seekers crossing the US/Mexico border, from the short-lived "asylum ban" to the ongoing policy of returning thousands of asylum seekers to Mexico — a policy under which, asylum officers told Vox, officers and their supervisors have been overruled to force asylum-seekers back to Mexico even when they might be in danger there.
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In Tijuana, where the number of would-be asylum-seekers is growing by the day, immigration attorneys and advocates describe a bottleneck system that makes asylum-seekers wait weeks before they can seek to enter the US for refuge.
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Officials also argue that federal resources would be better spent dealing with the influx of asylum-seekers crossing America's southern border (asylum-seekers ask for protection once they are in America, whereas refugees do so from a third country).
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She ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to be responsible for proving certain asylum seekers could pose a danger to the community if released, instead of putting the onus on asylum seekers to prove they are not dangerous.
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I am a psychiatrist who has performed scores of evaluations of asylum seekers over the last decade and can attest to the fact that asylum seekers overwhelmingly face death if they are sent back to their country of origin.
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There were also an estimated 19.5 million refugees and 1.8 million asylum seekers.
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Police investigations into the attacks are focussing on asylum seekers and illegal migrants.
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Some on your course are asylum seekers waiting to get official refugee status.
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The border force restricts flows of potential asylum-seekers to 20 per day.
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And other judicial decisions suggest that immigration officials treat asylum seekers too harshly.
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In January, Human Rights Watch described Japan's record on asylum seekers as "abysmal".
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Austria took in a large number of asylum seekers during Europe's migration crisis.
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A wall would also funnel legitimate asylum seekers to proper ports of entry.
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Aiding them in Thailand, she believes, are Chinese agents posing as asylum-seekers.
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Under the deal, the United States would take up to 1,250 asylum seekers.
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As of last week, Nauru held 1,132 asylum seekers including women and children.
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It stores fingerprints from asylum-seekers and notes where they were first fingerprinted.
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S. officials illegally and routinely turn away asylum seekers at ports of entry.
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Honduran asylum-seekers walk toward the US–Mexico border fence to cross over.
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Chief among them, unsurprisingly, was anger with Mrs Merkel's policy towards asylum-seekers.
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Yet US law also requires that asylum-seekers be given a fair hearing.
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The dramatic spike is due in part to an increase of asylum-seekers.
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Asylum seekers are initially housed in reception centres and generally only register later.
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Greece is now home to 0003,000 asylum-seekers, 9,000 of them on Lesbos.
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Local churches helping asylum seekers say they, too, are receiving far fewer families.
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A bus at the Lordsburg Border Patrol detention center discharging asylum seekers Tuesday.
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In office, his administration hasn't distinguished among asylum-seekers, refugees, and other migrants.
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"We are concerned that DHS is returning asylum seekers to harm in Mexico."
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But asylum seekers are barred by law from seeking employment in the city.
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On Wednesday, locals and asylum seekers clashed in the eastern town of Bautzen.
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The 11 asylum seekers from Central America were returned to Mexico since Jan.
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Asylum-seekers wait for weeks or months for their claims to be processed.
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Afghans were the second largest group of asylum-seekers in Europe after Syrians.
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Then they started to worry that most asylum-seekers were really economic migrants.
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Morrison, a former immigration minister, is associated with a crackdown on asylum seekers.
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The plan was for asylum-seekers to stay there while they were screened.
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It is not clear how much money has been taken from asylum seekers.
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In 2015, 163,000 asylum-seekers, mostly Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis, reached the country.
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Last year, Denmark received 21,000 asylum seekers, according to the Danish Refugee Council.
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The slogan refers to asylum-seekers trying to come to Australia by sea.
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The Netherlands, France and Luxembourg already took in some of the asylum-seekers.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has moved to keep more asylum seekers in detention.
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Asylum seekers and refugees do not have to pass the "public charge" test.
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Mexicans dominated the list of asylum-seekers waiting to cross in San Diego.
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Honduras and the United States struck a deal last month on asylum seekers.
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Caleb is an immigration attorney who specializes in cases with LGBT asylum-seekers.
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Elsewhere, someone lobbed a hand grenade into a processing centre for asylum seekers.
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More than 200 homes of asylum seekers were burned or attacked in 2015.
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Asylum seekers and refugee claimants will have to vacate the dormitories by Aug.
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"Today...all of the rejected asylum seekers were given meals," the group said.
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No wonder just 40% of failed asylum-seekers across the EU are returned.
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It is difficult for asylum-seekers to obtain refugee status, rights workers say.
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Most asylum seekers were intercepted while trying to enter the province of Quebec.
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Many other asylum seekers cross illegally and hand themselves in to border officials.
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He also oversaw policies that held migrants and asylum seekers in detention offshore.
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Even in a better facility, some asylum seekers have decided they can't wait.
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But the original problem, unfortunately, very much still exists for unrepresented asylum seekers.
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COMPARED with many Syrian asylum-seekers, Rima is in a rather comfortable situation.
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But all that changed when over 215m asylum-seekers reached Europe last year.
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Bolstering the Eritrean economy was intended to slow the outflow of asylum seekers.
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Allegations abound of Customs and Border Protection officers dismissing asylum seekers more brazenly.
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There are now about 11,53 asylum seekers in Hong Kong, the government reports.
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It is Greece that has upset the EU's calculus on curbing asylum-seekers.
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Reports also show that CBP is turning back asylum seekers at the border.
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Consequently, thousands of asylum seekers have made illegal entries along the Canadian border.
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International law holds that asylum seekers should be detained only in unusual circumstances.
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Prosecutions of asylum seekers for so-called ''illegal entry'' must be stopped immediately.
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Forcing families apart, and prosecuting parents, to deter asylum seekers must stop immediately.
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Under the Safe Third Country Agreement, asylum seekers at a formal Canada-U.
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And in 2015, Thailand reportedly deported to China 100 Uyghur Muslim asylum seekers.
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When asylum seekers return, said Guerra, their first concern is where to sleep.
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Her coalition partners want any more asylum seekers turned back at the border.
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Over 10,000 asylum seekers are currently waiting to request asylum in Tijuana alone.
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We are safe because we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers.
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Most are asylum seekers, thus pending trial, so your expert definition doesn't apply.
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In Fermo, the couple were living with 128 other migrants and asylum seekers.
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The topic of housing asylum seekers there came up, according to the official.
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And yet, his statement shows just how little Americans know about asylum seekers.
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Most of the families are asylum-seekers from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
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For asylum seekers, life in America's 99th-largest city is calm, but confusing.
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Judge, let&aposs be crystal clear on this, these are not asylum seekers.
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The United States began accelerating returns of asylum seekers to Mexico on Thursday.
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In Ireland, many face threats and from other asylum seekers in accommodation centres.
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This comes as the Trump administration has faced a surge of asylum-seekers.
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Beyond prohibitive costs, many asylum-seekers don't get lawyers because they're geographically inaccessible.
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The statement would not apply to asylum seekers and students, the spokesman said.
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The problem is that children, families, and asylum seekers can't be deported quickly.
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The number of asylum seekers in Spain has soared 12-fold since 2010.
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The Hungarian government employed them as translators for interviews of other asylum seekers.
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Among the directives: Asylum seekers would have to pay a fee to apply.
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Face covering is banned in public and benefits are reduced for asylum seekers.
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Among asylum seekers, only 11 percent did not show up for legal proceedings.
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Portugal is giving migrants and asylum-seekers full citizenship rights during the outbreak.
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Last month, nearly 11,000 asylum seekers legally entered the United States through them.
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Last year Austria took in 90,000 asylum seekers, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan.
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The refugees and asylum seekers they helped had international itineraries: Islamabad to Manchester.
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Case managers provided asylum seekers with referrals for education, legal services and housing.
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Despite Afghanistan's instability, Pakistan and other countries have begun returning Afghan asylum seekers.
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" And Tucker Carlson has described the caravan of asylum seekers as "highly dangerous.
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But Mr. Trump is selling his harsh treatment of asylum-seekers as deliberate.
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" For instance, he wrote, "two-thirds of the asylum seekers eventually receive asylum.
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Currently, asylum seekers must request refugee status in the member state they enter.
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We are safe because we are a city of immigrants and asylum-seekers.
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The House Democrats couldn't stop ICE's predations on vulnerable immigrants and asylum seekers.
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"Finland is bound by international agreements on refugees and asylum seekers," he said.
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But Merkel has resisted growing demands to cap the number of asylum seekers.
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Refugees and asylum seekers have a prima facie moral entitlement to that help.
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November of 2017 at Balseskin—the first reception center where all asylum seekers
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Mexican asylum-seekers camping near the Paso del Norte International Bridge, Jan. 7.
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Asylum seekers in Greece and Hungary are also mostly confined in squalid facilities.
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Border patrol agents are wrongfully turning away asylum seekers at points of entry.
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The Trump administration has not ordered customs agents to turn away asylum seekers.
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I risked prison by documenting crimes and human rights violations toward asylum-seekers.
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USCIS officials also plan to charge for work permit applications from asylum seekers.
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With a record number of asylum seekers, France is getting tough on immigration.
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Asylum-seekers are often given initial US court dates months in the future.
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The president's tactic of criminalizing asylum seekers is having some effect on attitudes.
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Asylum-seekers have the right to appeal deportation orders, but few have lawyers.
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The policy requires some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their hearing.
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It's about the government's failure to adapt to an influx of asylum seekers.
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She also said irregular asylum seekers will still be allowed in the country.
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The Trump administration has stepped up detention of asylum seekers (and immigrants, period).
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Only a handful of asylum seekers are let across the border each day.
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Veronica Escobar (D-TX) — who represents El Paso, an epicenter for asylum seekers.
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Recipients included the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, which provides legal support to asylum seekers.
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Tent cities would be used to house any asylum seekers, he also warned.
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The result has been increasingly harsh policies directed at immigrants and asylum seekers.
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Germany also announced that 22 of the 32 assault suspects were asylum seekers.
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Germany also announced that 2275 of the 226 assault suspects were asylum seekers.
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There are currently about 40,000 undocumented migrants, mostly African asylum seekers, in Israel.
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Attempts in recent years to resettle some of the asylum seekers in Cambodia and Malaysia collapsed, leaving Turnbull to portray the deal with the United States as a solution for the asylum seekers that also sticks to those hard-line policies.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Australia's immigration minister accused human rights advocates on Tuesday of giving "false hope" to asylum seekers held in offshore detention centers, suggesting that they bore some responsibility for two recent protests in which asylum seekers set themselves afire.
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Drafted in cooperation with international human rights organizations and signed in 2002, the agreement acknowledges that the US and Canada both have robust processes under which asylum seekers can petition for protections and have strong traditions of welcoming asylum seekers.
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Trump is upset that his administration is not halting the flow of asylum seekers.
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But they are much less enthusiastic about low-skilled migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers.
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In 1997, Congress passed a law protecting some Central American asylum-seekers from deportation.
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Asylum seekers would hear via word of mouth that there is an asylum list.
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International and US law compels authorities to give a fair hearing to asylum seekers.
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That tower block was full of asylum seekers, migrants, poor, working-class, black people.
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Some of the asylum seekers still in Norway have reportedly begun a hunger strike.
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In most cases, those individuals are asylum seekers or longtime permanent residents fighting deportation.
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Border cities have also struggled to support the growing population of waiting asylum seekers.
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His new Executive Order criminalizes asylum-seekers and seeks to indefinitely detain their children.
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The number of asylum seekers entering Austria has fallen sharply over the past year.
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One population at the border that has grown in recent years is asylum-seekers.
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The overall success rate for asylum-seekers' credible fear interview was 76% in 2018.
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The answer is not the number of asylum-seekers that the countries have received.
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The Australian-run centre has in the past been used to detain asylum seekers.
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And that, say immigrant advocates, is by design, to discourage would-be asylum-seekers.
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Greece is proposing to streamline a lengthy asylum process and deport rejected asylum seekers.
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Germany received the highest number of asylum seekers; more than 476,000 applicants in 2015.
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Like all asylum-seekers, Yee came here expecting to gain freedoms, not lose them.
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But 18 of them are asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa.
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Rich pickings for firms offering housing for asylum seekers have also provoked widespread anger.
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Her death comes amid criticism of the Trump administration's treatment of transgender asylum seekers.
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Refugee advocates say the law could sow deeper distrust between asylum seekers and authorities.
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US authorities take Central American asylum-seekers into custody June 12 near McAllen, Texas.
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US Border Patrol agents take Central American asylum-seekers into custody near McAllen, Texas.
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Central American asylum-seekers are taken into custody on June 12 in McAllen, Texas.
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"Asylum-seekers are sent away from the U.S. as quickly as possible," she wrote.
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Nor does it offer security, especially since the April deportations, which included asylum seekers.
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Governments that receive migrants and asylum seekers must reverse their reliance on private companies.
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Mr. LePage said asylum seekers overstayed their visas and did not have medical assessments.
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A year earlier it rejected UN censure of its stingy system for asylum-seekers.
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Mexico said it will offer jobs, health care and education to those asylum seekers.
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But there isn't evidence that harsher treatment of asylum seekers accomplishes the same goal.
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Asylum-seekers under 18 are entitled by law to the same healthcare as Swedes.
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There's a more intense spike — 67 percent — in the number of asylum seekers coming.
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There isn't really evidence that harsher treatment of asylum seekers has a deterrent effect.
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She also works with lawyers to provide counseling and legal advice to asylum seekers.
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There's been an uninterrupted backlog of asylum seekers since the day the camp opened.
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Sweden took in 163,000 asylum seekers last year, the most per capita in Europe.
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There are big questions about whether the "contiguous countries" provision applies to asylum seekers.
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Many are asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
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Countries accepting asylum seekers must engage in honest discussion about the challenges of integration.
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Such rules, intended to shield native workers, deter asylum-seekers from looking for jobs.
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He feared this would encourage future immigration by asylum seekers without the right skills.
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But rights groups say Mr Netanyahu's government has obstructed asylum-seekers with red tape.
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After all, "zero tolerance" is supposed to redirect asylum seekers toward ports of entry.
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Even your own article alternates between "refugees", "asylum-seekers", "migrants", "illegal migrants" and "immigrants".
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But deporting failed asylum-seekers once they have reached their chosen destination is hard.
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The conservatives say this will encourage immigration by asylum seekers without the right skills.
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A deal struck with Cambodia was halted after only four asylum seekers were resettled.
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When 10,000 asylum seekers arrived each week in November, Sweden could no longer cope.
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Those figures are likely related to the number of asylum seekers in the country.
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So for now, asylum seekers have an alternative to waiting in Mexico for months.
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Last year, some 116 failed asylum seekers were sent back to Tunisia, she said.
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On Tuesday suspected far-right extremists threatened asylum seekers in the town of Bautzen.
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Two of the men aimed objects resembling pistols at the asylum seekers, police said.
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The government thinks many asylum-seekers could still be in Greece in three years.
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Many asylum seekers have headed for Quebec where Montreal has a large Haitian community.
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According to Pakistani policy, the Rohingya do not qualify as asylum seekers or refugees.
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The deal is contingent on Turkey being being a safe country for asylum seekers.
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The White House has also specifically targeted asylum seekers arriving at the southwestern border.
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Many asylum-seekers have headed for Quebec, where Montreal has a large Haitian community.
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It has clashed with Hungary's government over its restrictions on immigration and asylum seekers.
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The office operates on the top floor of Chungking Mansions to support asylum seekers.
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Australia boasts that it has eliminated the unplanned arrival of asylum-seekers by sea.
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The country to watch is Germany, which took in 2000m asylum-seekers last year.
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America should never aim to deter asylum seekers from securing life-saving legal protection.
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Reena Kapoor, a forensic psychiatrist at Yale University, frequently performs evaluations for asylum seekers.
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Even waiting for a court date is becoming more harrowing for many asylum seekers.
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Critics say Oslo is violating asylum seekers' rights by not allowing them to appeal.
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Many in Papua New Guinea do not want the asylum seekers in their community.
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Asylum seekers must jump through infinitely smaller hoops to receive one of these, however.
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Such a "safe third country" must provide security and due process for asylum seekers.
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Caravans can bring hundreds of asylum seekers to one place over a few days.
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RELATED: US to begin sending asylum seekers to Mexico for duration of immigration proceedings
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The judge ordered the administration to stop making blanket determinations against most asylum seekers.
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" He said that we should tell asylum-seekers that "We can't take you anymore.
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For decades, the Nordic countries have been seen as reliable havens for asylum seekers.
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O'Rourke, speaking in Spanish, asked asylum seekers about their experiences in the court system.
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So, like many other asylum seekers, you decide to cross between ports of entry.
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The memorandum comes as the president ramps up his verbal attacks on asylum-seekers.
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Since January, nearly 3,500 asylum seekers have entered Canada illegally from the United States.
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Asylum seekers are generally allowed under US law to claim asylum on US soil.
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But we do not take our commitments to protect refugees and asylum seekers seriously.
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Helping these nations stabilize themselves is key to reducing the flow of asylum seekers.
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If the opinion stands, it could open the courthouse doors to more asylum seekers.
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The standoff has drawn harsh scrutiny to Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers.
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Meanwhile, the number of new asylum seekers arriving in Germany continues to fall sharply.
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There is simply no evidence that asylum seekers are committing crimes or transporting drugs.
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The figure peaked at about 20,000 asylum seekers in 2015, according to the government.
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How can we not afford the same freedom to literal children and asylum seekers?
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Colombia insists the defectors are non-combatant asylum-seekers who've left military life behind.
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More than 52,000 asylum seekers are now in Greece, with 3,300 on Lesbos alone.
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He favors the building of tent cities at the border for warehousing asylum seekers.
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It is because we are a city of immigrants and asylum seekers and refugees.
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Some asylum seekers have even had their cases reopened after they have been deported.
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There are currently more than 3,300 asylum seekers on the list in Ciudad Juárez.
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These three photographers have captured protests, asylum seekers and fireworks during their summer internships.
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Right now, our asylum system fails to assist asylum seekers who legitimately need it.
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According to DHS figures, more than 60,000 asylum-seekers have been blocked from entry.
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One agent claimed that blocking asylum seekers was a policy directive from higher-ups.
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More than 40,000 asylum-seekers are living in migrant centres at five Aegean islands.
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For all the asylum seekers who have called Nauru home, the psychological effects linger.
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"Trump's border policy has squeezed asylum seekers at both ends," writes Vox's Dara Lind.
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Veronica Escobar, sometimes bill as "the new Ellis Island" for immigrants and asylum-seekers.
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Atrocities have been committed at the border against asylum-seekers and refugees fleeing violence.
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Germany has announced plans to centralize its counterterrorism systems and deport rejected asylum seekers.
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Others focus on the discrimination and sense of displacement faced by Muslim asylum seekers.
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They also talked of setting up detention centers for rejected asylum-seekers pending deportation.
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The first step is to invest in dignified reception and processing of asylum seekers.
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The police estimate that 12,500 out of 18,000 rejected asylum seekers have gone underground.
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It's not clear that Guatemala has even formally agreed to receive Mexican asylum seekers.
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Most of the asylum seekers are Muslims from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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Germany saw an influx of 890,000 asylum seekers in 703 and 280,000 in 2016.
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The unaccompanied alien children in this study are overwhelmingly asylum seekers from Central America.
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That decline has come about not only because asylum seekers must remain in Mexico.
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And now asylum seekers can enter the work force just three months after arrival.
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For years, detention was the norm for asylum seekers until their cases were decided.
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The Human Rights Watch in January described Japan's record on asylum seekers as "abysmal".
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The Trump administration has also been trying to tighten the rights of asylum seekers.
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This is the domestic context in Korea into which the Yemeni asylum seekers arrived.
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After 20 years of photographing asylum seekers around the world, I am still angry.
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And Mexican asylum seekers will likely continue to be put at risk, Drake said.
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Shutting down the border to asylum-seekers would go against US law, Sharry said.
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The alarming growth in asylum seekers is clearly a problem that must be addressed.
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There are currently around 800 asylum seekers in apprenticeships, many in the hospitality industry.
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Sessions also neglects to mention that asylum seekers face a crisis in legal representation.
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Its detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru is a festering sore.
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It has also turned about a dozen former prisons into centers for asylum seekers.
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When UNHCR encounters particularly vulnerable asylum seekers, they're informally referred to the Mexican authorities.
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So Asylum Access, an advocacy group, hooked up Garcia with two Honduran asylum seekers.
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Several asylum-seekers the authors met in Calais are also part of the cast.
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The backlog at the asylum offices, for affirmative asylum seekers, includes around 22019,000 individuals.
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There is an "acute and clear danger that Saudi asylum-seekers face," he added.
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Trump's temper tantrum might inspire DHS to intensify its existing crackdown on asylum seekers.
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A spokesman for Hussen, the immigration minister, said asylum seekers can access provincial programs.
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Arrivals of asylum seekers in Spain remain relatively low compared with those in Italy.
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Since the first deal, the mood surrounding asylum seekers in Europe has not improved.
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It has sent 12,000 asylum seekers to Mexico since January, the Post also reports.
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In theory, raising a credible-fear standard 75 percent of asylum seekers pass to a reasonable-fear standard only 25 percent of asylum seekers pass would mean that thousands of people a month fail their screenings — and become eligible for summary deportation.
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"The situation for asylum-seekers in Hungary, which was already of deep concern to UNHCR, has only gotten worse since the new law introducing mandatory detention for asylum-seekers came into effect," Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said in a statement.
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Afghans have been among the main groups of asylum seekers in Europe, with 108,455 first time asylum seekers registered in the European Union in the 12 months to the end of June, second only to Syrians, according to EU statistics agency Eurostat.
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Australia's government, which has maintained a zero-tolerance policy toward asylum seekers to discourage migrants from trying the dangerous sea voyage, has said it is for Papua New Guinea to decide what to do with the asylum seekers at the Manus detention center.
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Another federal judge last Friday ruled against the administration's policies on detaining asylum-seekers while they awaited their appearances before an immigration judge, ordering that the asylum-seekers be granted an immigration hearing within seven days of their request or be released.
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Vice President Mike Pence suggested last week that Guatemala could receive asylum seekers from its neighbors as a safe third country agreement, which might force asylum seekers from other Central American countries to seek refuge there before applying in the United States.
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As Vox's Dara Lind detailed, asylum seekers are increasingly being forced to wait in Mexico before their cases are heard: Since late January, the Trump administration has turned back some Central American asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are processed.
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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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It is true that asylum seekers who are forced to wait years for decisions on their applications are entitled to work authorization: a necessary stopgap because the United States does not offer any financial assistance to asylum seekers while their cases are pending.
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The government has already made it much harder for new asylum-seekers to enter Sweden.
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The U.S., however, only takes a few dozen asylum seekers each day, based on capacity.
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The proposal also allows asylum seekers who are minors to apply from their home countries.
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We also need to be systematic about removing unsuccessful asylum seekers with a final order.
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Last year, she was prosecuted for helping two 15-year-old asylum seekers in France.
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Government data shows that a majority of asylum seekers show up for their court hearings.
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U.S. Homeland Security officials were scheduled to begin assessing asylum seekers on Nauru this week.
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Four asylum-seekers and 20 refugees later became terrorists and launched attacks on US soil.
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Migrants and failed asylum seekers are not relocated but repatriated to their countries of origin.
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Peru only tightened entry requirements on Venezuelan migrants, leaving its policies regarding asylum-seekers unchanged.
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However, it instructed authorities to press ahead with efforts to admit and settle asylum seekers.
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When I accompany asylum-seekers to the US border, I know things can go wrong.
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Failed asylum-seekers are devilishly difficult to deport, as countries like Germany have been learning.
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Recipients include the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, which provides legal support to asylum seekers, among others.
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Follow if you want to be updated on specific human rights violations affecting asylum seekers.
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At least one of those asylum seekers, Roxsana Hernandez, 33, has died in ICE custody.
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Asylum seekers are spread around the country based on each state's population and tax revenues.
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Most of the asylum seekers are from Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Syria.
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More than 52,000 asylum seekers are now in the country, with 3,300 on Lesbos alone.
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The Trump White House has long maintained that there is widespread "fraud" among asylum seekers.
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The administration believes that work permits are a "pull factor" encouraging asylum seekers to come.
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Refugees and asylum-seekers should ordinarily be processed in the country where they seek asylum.
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Barr's ruling, however, will impact other asylum-seekers that cross the border, mainly single adults.
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Ireland decided to accept up to 100 asylum-seekers during the remainder of this year.
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Germany's government is seeking to make it easier and quicker to deport failed asylum-seekers.
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The US has the capacity to take in both more refugees and more asylum seekers.
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Lawyers for the asylum seekers are due to lodge an appeal against later on Thursday.
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I'm not intimidated and if asylum seekers find their way to Cambridge, we'll welcome them.
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Two weeks ago, residents clashed with asylum seekers in the East German town of Bautzen.
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But he said he wanted humanitarian corridors to be made available for genuine asylum seekers.
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Everybody has a say when it comes to helping refugees and asylum seekers in Europe.
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Cooperative, the organization that helped prep this particular group for the process of asylum-seekers.
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Germany alone took in nearly a million asylum seekers, requiring $6.7 billion in resettling costs.
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The teens are two of the world's estimated 11 million child refugees and asylum-seekers.
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"Menacing or threatening migrant families and asylum-seekers is absolutely unacceptable and must cease," Gov.
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Activists are condemning Australian airlines for profiting off the deportation of refugees and asylum seekers.
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Several lawsuits ensued, including by asylum seekers who won the right to shelter in Amsterdam.
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The asylum seekers said they had exhausted their food supplies and were relying on rainwater.
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The money should be used to cover the costs of providing for the asylum seekers.
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A million asylum-seekers should be no great burden for a union of 500m people.
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This involved reclassifying more countries as "safe" places of origin to return failed asylum seekers.
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It tries to evacuate refugees and asylum seekers from Libya, though the process is slow.
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Asylum seekers are not eligible for public housing, food stamps, Medicaid, or other social services.
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There are currently about 21.3 million refugees, 3.2 million asylum seekers, and 40.8 million migrants.
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Some 1.1m asylum-seekers entered Germany in 2015, and similar numbers are expected in 2016.
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At the heart of the problem is how to share the burden of asylum seekers.
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Several #LetThemStay rallies have been organized across the country in support of the asylum seekers.
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REUTERS/Carlos Jasso Exclusive: U.S. officials postpone interviews with asylum seekers held in Australian campsU.
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That asylum seekers are "animals" whose children should be ripped from their families and caged?
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Instead of protecting Americans, however, his demands would harm asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants.
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Barragán questioned Nielsen's claim that asylum-seekers are not turned away at ports of entry.
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Court records show that asylum seekers have a very low chance of success without lawyers.
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This isn't unusual—and compared to many asylum seekers, John hasn't been waiting that long.
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The groaning camps on Greek islands hold around 9,000 asylum-seekers, and are swelling daily.
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Some worry that the next wave of asylum-seekers to Europe will be Turkish citizens.
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Trump's family separation policy and the highly publicized prolonged detention of asylum seekers enraged her.
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But the asylum-seekers had little confidence that these efforts would achieve their desired aim.
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The decision opened the door for asylum-seekers from other countries to make similar arguments.
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FACT: Most asylum seekers are actually denied, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
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Asylum seekers ended up in school gymnasiums, shuttered big-box stores and crowded tent encampments.
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Growing up there left her open to seeing what the asylum seekers would be like.
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As of June 2015, there were 60,747 refugees living in Austria, and 30,000 asylum seekers.
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Our disputes over how to treat asylum seekers are straining European unity as never before.
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The increase in asylum seekers has exacerbated housing problems, overwhelming shelters established by the government.
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As of 2017, nearly 90 percent of asylum seekers appeared at court for their hearings.
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He's also reportedly mulling an executive order to close the southern border to asylum-seekers.
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For example, asylum-seekers are not criminal defendants and therefore not processed in criminal courts.
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No wonder so many asylum-seekers from Central America are flocking to our southern border.
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This policy change does not apply to asylum seekers from Mexico, the DHS official said.
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Meanwhile, by September, the most recent month available, 79% of asylum seekers passed the interview.
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The protesting asylum seekers claim it isn't safe, citing previous violence by locals against refugees.
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They dehumanize asylum seekers, refugees, and even those here from foreign nations with legal status.
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Nearly half of those asylum seekers this year have sought sanctuary in the United States.
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However, asylum seekers inside the facility allege police and immigration officials were being heavy handed.
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The asylum seekers come from several countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia.
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AP: US Border and Customs: no room for asylum seekers who made it to border.
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The EU currently has an agreement allowing the return of asylum seekers only with Turkey.
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The paper said extending the options for deportation of asylum seekers would discourage people-smuggling.
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In Germany, LGBT asylum seekers have complained about intimidating comments made during their asylum interviews.
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In 2014, the Obama administration noted a large growth in asylum-seekers from Central America.
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An alternative would allow for the establishment of a permanent system to redistribute asylum seekers.
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LGBTQ asylum seekers are falling between the cracks of an overloaded and unfeeling detention system.
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Temporary homes for asylum seekers, such as SPRAR, are common in the US as well.
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The result is thousands of asylum-seekers waiting in Tijuana, overwhelming shelter and municipal resources.
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Asylum-seekers from Central America are taken into custody by border patrol agents near McAllen.
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Pechman, a Clinton appointee, wrote in her ruling that indefinitely holding asylum-seekers is unconstitutional.
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Above, asylum seekers waited on the Mexican side of a bridge between Brownsville and Matamoros.
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In another, it blocked the administration's effort to speed up the deportation of asylum seekers.
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Some pilots in Germany have refused to fly rejected asylum seekers out of the country.
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During the rally, speakers called the asylum seekers potential criminals or illegal migrants stealing jobs.
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The administration is also pushing to further tighten immigration restrictions, including rejecting all asylum seekers.
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It largely welcomed asylum seekers and refugees, and the Refugee Act reflected that humane view.
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That standard would be even higher for vulnerable immigrants, including asylum seekers and crime victims.
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It is used to vet Syrian and Iraqi refugees, as well as some asylum seekers.
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The country received 25 Central American asylum seekers in 2014 and none 10 years ago.
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It approved 80 asylum seekers' cases in this first quarter of the year, Eurostat said.
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When they flee, the majority of refugees and asylum seekers tend not to go far.
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It is because of this history that we now imprison undocumented migrants and asylum seekers.
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Studies show, however, that the vast majority of asylum seekers show up for their hearings.
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Thousands of Belgians, angry with government policy, are volunteering to feed and house asylum seekers.
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Meanwhile, the deal has done little to discourage the flows of asylum seekers to Greece.
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I feel like we are the same as asylum-seekers so I should help him.
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Many people we know in common have left the country, as immigrants or asylum seekers.
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He called asylum seekers "the biggest problem in our state," saying they brought in diseases.
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That will limit the decision's impact unless other asylum-seekers file lawsuits of their own.
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Another 1,200 asylum seekers are being held in a center on the island of Nauru.
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He said 50,000 asylum seekers and refugees were registered with one of Germany's 25,000 clubs.
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We partnered with several legal advocacy organizations that were getting applications approved for asylum seekers.
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Immigration detention guards and asylum-seekers leave court in in El Paso, Texas, in February.
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It has resulted in more than 900 asylum-seekers being deported to Guatemala so far.
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Nine in 5603 asylum seekers with no lawyer lose; nearly half with a lawyer win.
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He was among the first group of asylum seekers sent back to Mexico on Jan.
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In 2017, 89% of asylum seekers appeared in court to receive decisions on their cases.
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Above, a recent protest in Sydney urging that the asylum seekers be allowed into Australia.
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Last fall, he was lobbying for an upper limit of 200,000 asylum seekers per year.
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Sending asylum-seekers to an unstable, dangerous nation is a repudiation of America's humanitarian ideals.
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The asylum ban, which would have excluded most asylum seekers, was blocked by the courts.
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The administration is also sending some asylum seekers to Guatemala to seek humanitarian protections there.
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For asylum seekers with no anchor relatives in Canada, there is a more dangerous option.
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"For most asylum seekers, seeking protection in Guatemala is not an option," the lawsuit states.
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On a recent morning, more than 1,500 Mexican asylum seekers were waiting in Ciudad Juárez.
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Investigators are investigating whether he planned an attack that could be blamed on asylum seekers.
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The truth is that increased incarcerations and casting asylum seekers as criminals is simply wrong.
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But as of recent reports in 2018, more than 2,467 asylum seekers had been in
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Other countries, such as Poland, have refused to host asylum seekers and lighten Italy's load.
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Rights groups like Amnesty International say that asylum seekers at these centers face severe abuse.
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An estimated 8,000 asylum seekers now wait in Serbia for permission to cross into Hungary.
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At Vive, a staff composed largely of volunteers welcomes asylum seekers from around the world.
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A California congregation's display is meant to highlight the plight of refugees and asylum seekers.
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Asylum seekers who have not been granted refugee status should return home, Mr. Turnbull said.
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John M. Fife, Southside's pastor in the 1980s, said of one group of asylum seekers.
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BuzzFeed News spoke to multiple asylum-seekers who agreed to only use their first name.
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Janeway, Hill and Wahl stick to paper records when they care for the asylum-seekers.
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Generally, only the most seriously ill asylum seekers are brought to Australia for medical attention.
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Trump, however, was insistent that his administration begin taking another action -- denying asylum seekers entry.
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The choice, for many asylum seekers, has become death or a form of administrative hell.
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Every month, asylum seekers file more applications than the asylum offices have capacity to interview.
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Currently, asylum seekers who try to reach Australia by sea are barred from settling there.
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Asylum seekers will have a better chance of presenting their cases as strongly as possible.
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A smaller version of the caravan, numbers unknown, with asylum seekers will continue on. pic.twitter.
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But they cannot agree on how to share out those asylum seekers who make it.
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That interview, called a "credible fear" interview, essentially acts as a screener for asylum seekers.
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In 22015, Sweden admitted more asylum seekers, per capita, than any other country on Earth.
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The motorway has been the scene of numerous clashes between the police and asylum seekers.
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The number has swelled substantially under the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which has seen more than 47,000 asylum-seekers sent back while their immigration cases play out in the US. The practice of turning back asylum-seekers who present themselves at official border crossings is at the center of a 2017 lawsuit filed on behalf of Al Otro Lado, a binational border rights project and legal service provider, and asylum-seekers.
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There will be a new regime on the German-Austrian border—the main entry point to Germany for asylum-seekers travelling from southern Europe—"making sure that asylum-seekers for whose asylum procedures other EU states are responsible are prevented from entering the country".
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"If any court suggests 'Remain in Mexico' is illegal on its face, we could go from 12 (asylum seekers) today to 200 tomorrow," said Mary Jo Miller, head of Scottsdale, Arizona-based Refugee Aid, which organizes food, clothing and other donated goods for asylum seekers.
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Already asylum outcomes vary dramatically based on the judge that hears them—in San Antonio immigration court, for instance, only 2.3 percent of asylum seekers won their cases with one judge, while 75 percent of asylum seekers won with another judge, according to TRAC data.
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Meanwhile, they see asylum-seekers at the borders and believe that it's these immigrants who are cutting in front, without recognizing that the amount of asylum seekers allowed have little bearing on the caps placed on the number of family- and employment-based immigration.
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Asylum seekers cross illegally because under a U.S.-Canada agreement they will be turned back if they try to file refugee claims at formal land border crossings, because asylum seekers must file claims in the first country where they land, unless they meet certain exemptions.
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On Saturday, the government said it would move asylum-seekers to mainland facilities, increase border surveillance together with the European Union's border patrol agency Frontex and NATO, and boost police patrols across Greece to identify rejected asylum seekers who have remained in the country.
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More than half of the report experts said that refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants are at risk for arbitrary arrest, and a quarter of them said refugees and asylum seekers are at risk for disappearance (a stat that includes incommunicado detention at the border).
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President Trump has unveiled the next phase of his asylum crackdown: a new wave of regulations that would force asylum seekers' cases through much faster and make it harder for asylum seekers to afford to apply and live in the US in the meantime.
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Prior studies of Central American asylum seekers had shown that the possibility of punishment was already factored into their decisions to come to the US; previous attempts to use harsh treatment of current asylum seekers to deter future ones hadn't actually decreased the flow.
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In March, asylum seekers in Florence put on a play linking Sandokan to their own travels.
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She has also called for a "national effort" to ensure that rejected asylum-seekers leave Germany.
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And it placed more restrictions, going forward, on both future TPS grants and future asylum seekers.
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Migrants and asylum-seekers are instead traveling along the eastern and western Mediterranean routes, Leggeri said.
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Plenty of asylum-seekers at America's southern border are not fleeing persecution but crime and poverty.
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A good offer Asylum seekers do not have the luxury of choosing where they end up.
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"Norway should not return asylum seekers to Russia without examining their claims individually," Tanya Lokshina said.
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Asylum seekers at the Mexican border are being treated like criminals despite having broken no laws.
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Judge rules DHS must consider detained asylum-seekers&apos parole on case-by-case basis . Sen.
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Instead, they found themselves facing exactly what asylum seekers flee: conditions that can lead to death.
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Some administration officials blame asylum seekers for this, saying they're deliberately trying to sabotage the system.
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For decades, the Nordics have enjoyed the image of being a reliable haven for asylum seekers.
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Austria took in around 90,000 asylum seekers in 2015, more than 1 percent of its population.
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Many of the asylum seekers applying for the U.S. deal are from countries on that list.
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Many asylum-seekers have been detained at facilities in Louisiana and across the Southeast for months.
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Trump officials are seeking to double the time asylum-seekers have to wait to legally work.
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SNAPSHOTS The Trump administration wants to send hundreds more asylum-seekers back to Mexico every day.
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The number includes asylum-seekers who present themselves at official border crossings to ask for refuge.
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Right now, Mexico is violently deploying the National Guard against a caravan of Honduran asylum seekers.
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About 43,000 refugees and asylum seekers registered by U.N. refugee agency UNHCR are now in Libya.
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The center was built in 2006 and held asylum seekers until its closure in September 2018.
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Logistically, though, there's a limit to how many asylum seekers CBP officials can process at once.
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Just after the blast, the German authorities postponed a flight carrying failed asylum-seekers to Kabul.
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The Trump administration is now seeking to criminally prosecute everyone crossing the border, including asylum seekers.
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The closure paved the way for imprisoning asylum-seekers and the family separation crisis that followed.
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Both of the women are asylum seekers, and one has already been reunited with her daughter.
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The International Rescue Committee and local partners opened this welcome center for asylum seekers July 27.
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The asylum-seekers were told by US Customs and Border Patrol the facility was at capacity.
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Dozens of would-be asylum-seekers from Mexico were also told they could not be processed.
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The rise has mostly come from asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty in Central American countries.
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Its ministers undermined the independence of Austria's state broadcaster and attacked the rights of asylum-seekers.
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According to the Department of Homeland Security, no asylum-seekers were actually deported during that time.
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In 21990 no European country took in more asylum-seekers, relative to its population, than Sweden.
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When 2.6m asylum-seekers arrived in Europe in 2015-16, the political mood quickly turned sour.
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Of the 92,000 adult asylum-seekers who arrived in 2015, half did not finish high school.
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Morris told VICE the "number one population" of asylum-seekers his organization sees are from Jamaica.
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More than three times as many asylum-seekers came to Britain in 2002, a recent peak.
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MEXICO FOREIGN MINISTER EBRARD SAYS DID NOT DISCUSS WITH U.S. PAYMENT FOR ACCEPTING MORE ASYLUM SEEKERS
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To them, the more urgent issue is the administration's treatment of families, children, and asylum seekers.
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The autonomous territory has been under pressure from China to curb asylum seekers, the report added.
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Like so many other asylum seekers before me, leaving my country was a matter of survival.
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In 2016, Britain pledged to take 480 of the most vulnerable young asylum seekers in Europe.
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So are refugees or asylum seekers, and the rules would not be applied retroactively, officials said.
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He demonized immigrants and asylum seekers, paving the way for his later closure of Hungary's borders.
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More than 21,000 asylum seekers came to Denmark last year, up from around 14,800 in 2014.
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It aimed to relocate 22016,000 asylum-seekers through 2017, but handled just 31,472 by November 3rd.
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In 2000 the EU instituted a temporary scheme to redistribute 217,21 asylum-seekers among member countries.
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They will be housed temporarily in a reception center for asylum seekers in the capital Zagreb.
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Asylum-seekers are generally more likely to attempt suicide than the general population, studies have shown.
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"I get it, we have a problem with so many migrants and asylum seekers," he said.
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Recently, they've tried to prevent asylum-seekers from getting bail, an effort blocked by the courts.
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Both major parties support "Operation Sovereign Borders", claiming it stops more asylum-seekers dying at sea.
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In Bavaria, mandatory schooling applies to all asylum seekers, regardless of the status of their application.
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About half of the asylum seekers arriving in Europe last year were fleeing the Syrian war.
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He reportedly told border policemen to break the law and deny asylum-seekers entry to America.
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It is now hosting some 8,500 asylum-seekers in facilities designed to hold fewer than 3,000.
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Toronto says 800 asylum seekers in college dormitories will have to move out by Aug. 9.
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The Trump administration doesn't hold much regard for asylum seekers or projects started by President Obama.
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Outside Lynx House in Cardiff - v mixed views from 43 asylum seekers on wristband controversy. pic.twitter.
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According to the Swedish Migration agency, around 163,000 asylum seekers arrived in the country in 2015.
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Asylum-seekers who turn themselves in to border inspectors usually do not face such a fate.
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But, he said, the money his organization receives means better services for asylum seekers in Sudan.
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A group of Haitian asylum seekers sit with shopping bags outside the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.
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McKinney and other lawyers warned that unequal access to technology has serious consequences for asylum seekers.
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On Tuesday this week, Norway and Sweden deported groups of failed Afghani asylum seekers to Kabul.
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Venezuela Quick, name the country that currently has the most asylum seekers to the US. Mexico?
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The European Union saw the number of Nigerian asylum seekers triple last year compared to 2014.
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Sweden took three asylum-seekers for every 1,000 inhabitants in the 12 months to September 2015.
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It has now affected more than 15,000 asylum seekers, mainly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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Finland received close to 32,500 asylum seekers last year, compared with just 3,600 a year earlier.
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This acknowledges the backlog problem and ceases punishing innocent asylum seekers for circumstances beyond their control.
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"We have very, very few cases of any of them (asylum seekers) committing crimes," Johansson said.
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The administration has contended that the asylum seekers are pushing the immigration system to its limits.
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The plan also envisions sending back rejected asylum seekers who are waiting for an appeal hearing.
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Asylum-seekers shop around, leaving some EU countries to bear a far heavier burden than others.
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This week the commission also proposed a radical revision of the EU's rules on asylum-seekers.
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Critics say the policy of holding asylum seekers and refugees indefinitely on Pacific islands is inhumane.
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Australia closed the center on Manus Island in 2017 and moved some of the asylum seekers.
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The discretion that Congress has given to the executive branch adds another hurdle for asylum seekers.
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In other words, only 113-15% of asylum seekers who participated in the program were noncompliant.
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But the trend highlights the harsh reality for asylum seekers fleeing conflicts in the Middle East.
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The plan itself does not limit relocation to asylum seekers from only Eritrea, Iraq and Syria.
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DHS's efforts to deter asylum-seekers not only run counter to law but also are ineffective.
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FACT: Many of these asylum seekers are escaping rampant violence, famine or persecution in Central America.
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Had 350 asylum seekers come to Eisenärzt, the reaction would have been "riots," he told me.
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This last belief, that criminality among asylum seekers is being covered up, has become increasingly common.
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And when asylum seekers are apprehended, there are few staff and limited facilities to receive them.
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The government would also begin charging asylum seekers $50 for applications and $490 for work permits.
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Migrant rights groups said that tightening access to health care would harm most legitimate asylum seekers.
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The Los Angeles Times: Most of the asylum-seekers who reached the border are from Honduras.
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More than 36,000 asylum seekers, mostly Muslims, have poured into Denmark over the past two years.
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Asylum seekers are, by definition, those who have already entered the United States to request protection.
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Many people wonder why asylum-seekers cross illegally rather than at a legal point of entry.
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The litany of detentions and releases works to wear asylum seekers down until they give up.
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All were detained under Australia's policy of offshore detention for asylum seekers who arrive by boat.
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Forcing judges to speed up asylum cases will simply ensure that more asylum-seekers are unrepresented.
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Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Trump administration ban on asylum seekers.
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Many people wonder why asylum seekers cross illegally, rather than at a legal point of entry.
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More than 1,000 refugees and asylum seekers, including around 50 children, are being held on Nauru.
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Graham believes expanded detention of children will act as a deterrent to asylum seekers and migrants.
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You don't put asylum-seekers in prison, and we're calling for an end to that today.
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And that's a huge blow to the many asylum seekers fleeing Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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The country, which has a population of 9.5 million, took in 160,000 asylum seekers last year.
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With Nielsen gone, the administration is considering further restrictions on asylum seekers and reinstating child separation.
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On Friday, officials said asylum seekers were among those suspected of involvement in the Cologne violence.
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Norway has now become the most determined of all European countries to expel Afghan asylum seekers.
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Australians are standing up against the offshore detainment of asylum seekers at protests around the country.
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Campaigners say a lack of protection for LGBTi asylum seekers is a widespread problem in Europe.
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From July 1 to July 19, an average of around 50 asylum-seekers arrived per day.
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The intelligence agency has advised local authorities against housing asylum-seekers near Salafist or Wahhabi mosques.
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Last year around 890,000 asylum-seekers, more than 13 percent of them Muslims, entered the country.
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Now, DHS is announcing that it will refer everyone for prosecution — including asylum seekers with children.
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The recent decline in asylum seekers coincides with the relaxation of the policy starting in 2013.
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C-Star has actually highlighted that people really do want to protect asylum-seekers and refugees?
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Refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers are all lumped together in one pot by politicians and press.
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Germany's population has swelled by over one million asylum seekers fleeing war and conflict at home.
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Around one-third of those are refugees, while the rest are internally displaced or asylum-seekers.
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Agents even took — and failed to return — documents that demonstrate the persecution suffered by asylum seekers.
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Jason Ortega, a lawyer at the Los Angeles L.G.B.T. Center, represents several Central American asylum seekers.
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That's when Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed nearly a million asylum seekers from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Some asylum seekers living in the US have waited years for their cases to be resolved.
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He was taking responsibility for these desperate and poor asylum-seekers because no one else would.
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And Oliva's story, she said, pointed to the difficulty for asylum seekers to represent their cases.
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"I consider it unthinkable to issue working permits for asylum seekers," Wolfgang Sobotka told the paper.
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By December of that year, almost 29,20 migrants, asylum seekers, and newcomers had come into Germany.
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In 2017, 89% of asylum seekers appeared in court to receive a decision on their case.
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But her decision to embrace more than a million asylum seekers unsettled that cozy status quo.
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Australia said it would not take any of the more than 800 asylum seekers detained there.
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The official also said that many more asylum seekers should be rejected during that first step.
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President Trump has called for immigrants and asylum seekers to be deported without a court hearing.
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On Friday, Australian officials insisted that the alternative facilities were adequate, despite the asylum seekers' complaints.
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"But of course we don't know how many of those are formal asylum seekers," he added.
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The U.S. will admit as many Syrian refugees as France takes in Central American asylum-seekers.
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European countries have also taken in asylum seekers from several other countries, like Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Those who support barring asylum-seekers rely on the same sentiment as MacKay: protect our own.
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For many years, they have preferred to talk about "people smugglers" rather than asylum seekers themselves.
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The 12 asylum seekers spoke with border officials for three hours, and then were turned away.
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The camps for asylum seekers must not just be made more humane; they must be closed.
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Most rich countries allow asylum-seekers to work within a few months of submitting an application.
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Austria also took in more than 1% of its population in asylum seekers in the process.
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Asylum-seekers wait for weeks or months for their turn to ask the US for protection.
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Asylum seekers generally don't qualify for social services, including Medicaid, before they have been granted asylum.
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The plan was initially limited to adult asylum-seekers but was expanded to families on Dec.
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These are often asylum-seekers who hope for a better chance of being received in Canada.
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It has also seen an increase in kidnappings as asylum-seekers have flocked to the area.
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That is in addition to the million or so refugees and asylum seekers from neighboring countries.
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Currently, there is no charge for asylum seekers to seek work authorization for the first time.
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From asylum seekers to longtime legal residents who have committed crimes, immigration prisons spare no one.
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Many of the asylum seekers identified themselves as atheists, having given up their faith in God.
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The complaint alleges that turning asylum-seekers away is a violation of US and international laws.
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Bolund had won some political points recently by attending to the cash concerns of asylum seekers.
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United Nations officials have registered nearly 280,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Yemen, mostly from Somalia.
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The order on sending asylum seekers back to Mexico was slated to go into effect Friday.
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"We're not protecting asylum-seekers or sending them to a safe country," Zavala told BuzzFeed News.
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One side effect might be to push asylum seekers away from official crossings into upcountry areas.
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And Germany's efforts in processing and integrating asylum seekers are showing policy success alongside political strain.
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The biggest bone of contention is how to share out asylum seekers who do make it.
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Guatemala, a proposed "safe third country" is not, in fact, a safe place for asylum seekers.
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An ICE spokesperson later said the agency could not confirm all the families are asylum-seekers.
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That prompted the EU to impose mandatory quotas on its member countries for relocating asylum seekers.
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Still, Friday's proposal will likely make it difficult for even those asylum seekers to support themselves.
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Several miles to the east, the Hidalgo Port of Entry was also overwhelmed with asylum-seekers.
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He would renew the US's focus on protecting vulnerable immigrant populations, including asylum seekers and refugees.
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"I made clear to the government that UNHCR policy is against detaining asylum seekers," Grandi said.
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According to the UNHCR's latest public records, Saudi refugees and asylum-seekers totaled 2,392 in 2017.
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Already, asylum seekers are waiting months — during which some sleep outdoors — to put in their applications.
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However, simultaneously, they have imposed other policies that reject asylum seekers trying to do just that.
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Germany agreed to accept asylum seekers even if they had passed through other parts of Europe.
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In January, April, and May, Amnesty researchers interviewed 52 asylum seekers along the US-Mexico border.
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Under the shelter of the trees, some asylum seekers from Pakistan play cards around a fire.
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This is a story about the brutal math that asylum seekers face at the border today.
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Many of the asylum seekers in question are parents who have been separated from their children.
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Since it was implemented, nearly 14,000 asylum seekers have been sent to Mexico under the program.
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There will be transit centres, reportedly at or close to German borders, at which asylum-seekers will be held and from which rejected asylum-seekers will be promptly deported to their countries of arrival in the EU, under deals to be negotiated with those other countries.
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Ports of entry are already overwhelmed with asylum seekers; at most ports, asylum seekers have to wait on the Mexican side of the border, sometimes for weeks, before Customs and Border Protection officials allow them to cross into the US and claim their right to asylum.
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In response to the surge in migrants and asylum-seekers, the European Union opted in 2016 to divert money and personnel from its own rescue missions to the Libyan coast guard, hoping to discourage migrants and asylum-seekers from making the trek in the first place.
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In the meantime, a Human Rights Watch report published last week alleges that Mexican police arrested two of the asylum seekers and beat one of them, and a group of armed men attempted to burn down the shelter where another group of asylum seekers was staying.
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In hope of stemming the flood of asylum seekers — many from Afghanistan, Iran and Sri Lanka — making a perilous and often deadly journey in rickety boats to its shores, Australia instituted a policy in 2013 that sent asylum seekers arriving by sea to two detention centers.
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"The approach of our government in terms of welcoming (asylum seekers) and the political context in the United States have all been contributing factors," said François Gagnon, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, referring to the rise in asylum seekers entering the country illegally.
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Even Denmark, which has been the most "unwelcoming" in terms of its international PR-strategy, received more than 20,000 asylum seekers in 2015, according to its Integration Ministry, while neighbors Sweden expected to receive a colossal 190,000 asylum seekers last year, according to the country's Migration Ministry.
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In July 2017, a group of immigration lawyers, advocacy organizations, and asylum seekers filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security alleging that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, who operate at national points of entry, are illegally turning away asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Shares in G265S plunged more than 21.6 percent to seven-year lows after the company said an increase in the number of asylum seekers between November and January forced it to lift its provision on its contract to provide accommodation for asylum seekers by 22013 million pounds.
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In the meantime, a Human Rights Watch report published last week alleges that Mexican police arrested two of the asylum-seekers and beat one of them, and a group of armed men attempted to burn down the shelter where another group of asylum-seekers was staying.
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The end of Safe Release set the stage for a highly localized humanitarian crisis when the number of asylum-seekers began to rise this spring—soon after, the Trump administration announced a national emergency on the border, citing the "sharp increases" of asylum seekers in border towns.
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In vowing tariffs, Mr. Trump wants Mexico to stop asylum seekers before they reach the American border, both by fortifying its own southern frontier against migrants from Central America and by agreeing to take back asylum seekers from the United States even if they are not Mexican.
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Cancela also said Biden was moved by the stories of asylum-seekers at the border, particularly the struggles of LGBTQ asylum seekers, like that relayed by an audience member Thursday of a trans woman who was sent back to El Salvador, where she was later killed.
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He asked for proposals to charge a fee for asylum applications, stop issuing work permits to asylum seekers until their applications have been approved, shunt asylum seekers into limited court proceedings to judge their applications, and require all asylum cases to be wrapped up in 180 days.
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New DOJ immigration memo targets asylum seekers and vulnerable kids, attorneys say New DOJ immigration memo targets asylum seekers and vulnerable kids, attorneys say A new Department of Justice memo ordering U.S. immigration courts to expedite the cases of all immigrants currently held in detention centers is setting off alarm bells with immigration advocates and attorneys who say it will undermine due process by allowing children, asylum seekers, and longtime permanent residents to be deported more easily.
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But the likelihood of a mad dash by asylum seekers to storm the border crossing seems remote.
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Germany said today that more than one million people had registered as asylum seekers there last year.
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"It's undeniable that we have a significant increase in asylum seekers," Smith told Reuters in an interview.
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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is calling for Germany to turn back some asylum-seekers at the border.
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Central American asylum seekers at the border will feel the impact of the attorney general's decision immediately.
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It is already abundantly clear that asylum seekers arriving by boat will not be resettled in Australia.
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Most asylum seekers have traditionally passed credible fear interviews, which prevents quick removal from the United States.
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Seehofer demanded steps to prevent asylum seekers from entering Germany if they have registered elsewhere in Europe.
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If Mexico complies with Trump's demands, migrants and asylum seekers in particular, could face increasingly inhumane treatment.
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Bowden helps feed migrants at a soup kitchen in Nogales, Mexico, and teaches English to asylum seekers.
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It's an all-time high: likely the largest population of refugees and asylum seekers in human history.
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There is no common ground on the overall number of asylum-seekers that the EU should accept.
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The refugee convention and the Dublin regulation for asylum-seekers have played a big part in this.
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Mexico can be a welcoming place for asylum seekers, whether they choose to stay or continue north.
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Additionally, asylum seekers are allowed to appeal to an immigration judge if they fail their screening interviews.
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Neta: This Texas-based grassroots organization helps asylum seekers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Tijuana is the most appealing destination for asylum seekers traveling northward to the US for two reasons.
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Even signing a "Remain in Mexico" deal would require CBP officers to spend energy on asylum seekers.
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Hungary's grim treatment of asylum-seekers, a clear violation of EU law, is also in Brussels's sights.
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Well-organised local authorities have dealt efficiently with the influx of asylum-seekers in 2015 and 2016.
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Blocking the dinghies would stop not only economic migrants but also asylum-seekers fleeing war and persecution.
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Merkel has proposed that asylum seekers already rejected by Germany could be turned back at the border.
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Central American asylum-seekers wait as US Border Patrol agents take them into custody near McAllen, Texas.
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As a UN goodwill ambassador, the actress has advocated for refugees and asylum-seekers around the world.
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Last week, she posted that the forecast for asylum seekers in Norway is 8,250 for next year.
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Asylum seekers are now forced to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts.
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Asylum-seekers have the right under US law to enter the country and have their cases heard.
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He opposes providing welfare benefits for asylum seekers and has been holding forums to discuss his agenda.
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You might assume that the huge inflow of asylum-seekers since 2015 has made Europe more xenophobic.
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In fact, if the Trump administration has its way, it could become ever harder for asylum-seekers.
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It pays Nauru and Papua New Guinea to house its asylum-seekers in grim "offshore processing" camps.
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Speaking on ABC radio Monday, Dutton reiterated that the asylum seekers in question will be moved offshore.
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Last year more asylum-seekers in France applied from Albania, a country considered safe, than anywhere else.
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Norway announced last November that it would begin rejecting asylum seekers who had previously resided in Russia.
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I have interviewed dozens of asylum seekers and migrants, including some women and children, with similar stories.
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More recently an outpouring of asylum-seekers from the Muslim world's many conflicts has changed the demography.
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There have always been many fewer asylum seekers coming to ports of entry than crossing between them.
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Most of the 1,73-odd asylum-seekers left on the islands are refugees from war-afflicted regions.
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This proximity made the route popular among asylum seekers, and a vast smuggling economy emerged in response.
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The 34-page complaint was filed on behalf of nonprofit groups that provide assistance to asylum seekers.
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Sweden took in 163,20143 asylum seekers last year, nearly doubling a record of 84,000 in the 1990s.
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"It's not uncommon for refugees and asylum seekers to be moved all around the country," he says.
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Both leaders agreed that additional detention centers should be opened in Europe to review asylum seekers' applications.
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But the bill actually goes in the other direction, cracking down on families and other asylum seekers.
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America's treatment of asylum seekers is likely to get a lot worse before it gets any better.
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The two countries struck a deal last month under which Honduras would take in more asylum seekers.
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In Osorto's camp, asylum seekers use water from the Rio Grande to wash, despite outbreaks of rashes.
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But even Trump could not quite grasp Australia's controversial refugee policy or why it detains asylum-seekers.
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But advocates for refugees and asylum seekers say that the alternatives can be burdensome and even painful.
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Norway too has tightened legislation to deter asylum seekers, creating some of the toughest regulations in Europe.
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"The red doors made it easy to identify the asylum seekers" - Suzanne Fletcher, retired Councillor https://t.
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Around 60% of all male asylum-seekers from Algeria and Morocco were 18- to 34-year-olds.
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Fraudulent asylum seekers often present "cut and paste" evidence identical to that of other migrants, Zamora said.
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Rejected asylum seekers in 2016 were most often from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria, Interior Ministry data shows.
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Another former detainee said he felt the guards disrespected the asylum seekers and treated them like criminals.
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Once fingerprinted, migrants are sent to an Asylum Seekers Center in the outskirts of Albania's capital Tirana.
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Austria's Social Democrats switched from welcoming asylum-seekers to tightening border controls, and were flattened for it.
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Deportations made up a small fraction of the 20,000 rejected asylum seekers who left Sweden last year.
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The number of migrants crossed the one million mark after 127,320 asylum seekers were registered in December.
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The lesson is that refugee camps cannot contain all the asylum seekers wishing to enter a country.
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Last year, Nauru began allowing asylum seekers to come and go freely from the detention center there.
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The U.S., for instance, will accept as many as 280,000 asylum seekers in fiscal 2019, he said.
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The outcome for asylum seekers can vary greatly, according to which judges are assigned to their cases.
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It is not possible to determine how many asylum seekers are entering Canada illegally along that border.
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Asylum-seekers must also have clean criminal records and no record of participation in internal armed conflicts.
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That's why President Trump's efforts to close our doors to refugees and asylum seekers is so upsetting.
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Most of the rest have registered as asylum-seekers, in many cases to postpone being summarily returned.
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Asylum-seekers and other migrants who miss their immigration hearings are almost always ordered deported in absentia.
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For years, bona-fide asylum seekers have been released through parole or use of alternatives to detention.
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Volunteers also pass out maps to asylum seekers and help to connect them with services when needed.
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Asylum seekers with legal representation are twice as likely to be successful than those without legal representation.
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The administration will still send asylum-seekers back to face violence and death in their home countries.
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Immigrant Justice Corps, a nonprofit legal aid group, is sending fellows to Texas to assist asylum seekers.
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Several months had passed since we first met, and new asylum seekers were still arriving in town.
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Amnesty International found that suicide attempts among refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru have become disturbingly common.
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Among the 58 refugees and asylum seekers Amnesty International interviewed, most said they experienced severe emotional distress.
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Immigration More asylum-seekers will be turned away at the border under a new Trump administration policy.
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Poland is refusing to take in some of the mainly Muslim asylum seekers under the quota system.
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Concerns have grown since around 6,000 asylum seekers crossed into Finland and Norway from Russia last year.
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Taken together, these proposals are not just the latest in a series of attacks on asylum-seekers.
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Should it be implemented, it would likely result in immediate legal challenges from asylum-seekers and advocates.
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But few details about the future of the 960 asylum seekers being held there were disclosed Wednesday.
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Roughly 80% of asylum seekers pass that screening, though a smaller share of them eventually achieve asylum.
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The asylum seekers will make their cases before Canada's refugee tribunals, which rejected 5,000 cases last year.
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Guatemala also lacks resources to adequately house, educate or provide opportunity to potential asylum seekers, observers say.
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But Barr wrote that only the Department of Homeland Security has the authority to release asylum seekers.
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Much more thinking is needed on respecting the privacy of health information for asylum-seekers and others.
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He described the asylum seekers as being "rowdy" but said officials were not using force against them.
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He also touted an announcement that Mexico would hold some asylum seekers during their US immigration proceedings.
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Once they leave the makeshift tent city, asylum seekers face a long wait and an uncertain future.
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The Mosavis were victims of a hardening in Norwegian government policies and popular attitudes toward asylum seekers.
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For instance, the administration's partial ban on asylum seekers in November was almost immediately challenged in court.
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Two of the attacks were claimed by Islamic State and three of the attackers were asylum seekers.
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Their opposition to Brussels-imposed quotas to re-distribute asylum seekers led to the plan being dropped.
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Ciudad Juarez, just south of El Paso, Texas, received relatively few asylum seekers until late last year.
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But in the last two weeks, that average jumped to 150 asylum-seekers per day, she said.
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The town of 14,500 people has taken in 132 asylum seekers, according to the town's official website.
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The majority of countries lack such fees to asylum seekers, although some charge migrants for protection visas.
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But as the caravan showed, ports of entry often lack the resources to process asylum seekers quickly.
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Asylum seekers, on the other hand, undergo long, arduous, often dangerous journeys to the country of asylum.
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Asylum seekers are running into other concerning obstacles at the border as well, Garcia told VICE News.
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In other cases, asylum seekers are running into roadblocks even before they can officially log their claim.
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Despite these increasingly tense conditions on the border, asylum seekers are still arriving each day, Garcia said.
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The spokesman projected that "possibly tens of thousands" of asylum seekers would be impacted by Sessions's decision.
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The details: Under joint agreement, Germany will establish centers near its borders to review asylum seekers' applications.
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But toward the end of March, the number of asylum-seekers nearly tripled — and nonprofits needed help.
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