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Some U.S. embassies in European nations are taking to social media with pointed warnings to would-be visitors: Watch your step. Embassies in at least 17 countries have put up posts featuring images of administration figures, including President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, warning those seeking visas that […]
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 […]
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 . . .
Human Rights First (HRF), an organization dedicated to safeguarding human rights in the US, published Monday a fact sheet outlining the findings of an investigation into US border and asylum policies. The investigation ultimately revealed ways in which the policies are harmful to Black asylum seekers. The fact sheet indicated that the recently enacted asylum […]
People seeking asylum face onerous barriers to asylum; Black asylum seekers must contend with additional discriminatory harms. These include the asylum ban and related restrictions that deny most African asylum seekers equal access to asylum at ports of entry and punish those who cross between ports of entry to seek safety. These barriers strand Black […]
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