asylum
The US has granted refugee status to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, who could arrive as soon as Monday in Washington DC, where they will be welcomed by government officials, according to media reports. Donald Trump suspended the US refugee settlement programme in January on his first day in office, leaving
CNN  — For days, they say they were locked inside a hotel in Panama, surrounded by tight security with limited contact with the outside world. Nearly 300 migrants from Asia, all deported by the US, were held there by Panamanian authorities who . . .
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico CNN  — The main room in the El Buen Samaritano shelter in Ciudad Juarez, a city along the US-Mexico border, is quiet for most of the day. Rows of bunk beds stretch from wall to wall, each separated . . .
Washington — The Trump administration is developing an asylum agreement with El Salvador’s government that would allow the U.S. to deport migrants to the small Central American country who are not from there, two sources familiar with the internal deliberations told CBS News. The arrangement, known as a “Safe Third Country” agreement, would empower U.S. […]
Washington CNN  — The US-Mexico border is effectively closed off to migrants seeking asylum in the United States within hours of President Donald Trump taking office, an extraordinary departure from previous protocols that has left many concerned migrants in limbo. It . . .
President Biden’s administration is planning to soon issue a regulation to cement the sweeping asylum restrictions it enacted at the southern border over the summer, two U.S. officials told CBS News, describing changes that would make it far less likely for the strict rules to be lifted in the near future. In June, Mr. Biden […]
Mexico offers escorted rides north from southern Mexico for migrants with US asylum appointments  The Associated Press Source link
US authorities have subjected Haitian asylum seekers to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill-treatment that amounts to race-based torture, said Amnesty International today in the new report, ‘They Did Not Treat Us Like People’: Race and Migration-Related Torture and Other Ill-Treatment of Haitians Seeking Safety in the USA. These human rights violations, along with […]
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging President Biden’s decision to shut down the southern border to nearly all migrants seeking asylum in the United States. The action is the first legal challenge to an order that the Biden administration hopes will decrease the number of illegal border crossings and neutralize […]
When Daniel, a migrant from Nigeria, heard he had made it to the United States just days before President Biden’s executive action went into effect, he dropped to his knees, praising “hallelujah.” “That’s the new law? And it starts today . . .