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News Articles: asylum-seekers

UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, provides meals and legal orientation at the CAFEMIN shelter in Mexico City. The shelter capacity of 100 people has been stretched above 500 in recent weeks with a growing number of migrants stuck in limbo in Mexico.

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  • World

New U.S. immigration rules send asylum requests soaring in Mexico

One of the new U.S. rules says you can't request asylum unless you've already been denied in another country. Mexico is getting more applications than ever, and crowded shelters have turn people away.

June 06, 2023
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By:
  • James Fredrick
Migrants try to stay warm as they wait in the rain after turning themselves over to U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing over from Mexico in Fronton, Texas on May 12.

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  • Law

Immigration judge says trial workloads and resource constraints are 'a problem'

NPR's A Martinez asks Mimi Tsankov, president of the National Association of immigration judges, about the end of Title 42.

May 15, 2023
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By:
  • Destinee Adams
U.S. military stop migrants from crossing into El Paso, Texas, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary order to keep pandemic-era limits on asylum-seekers in place, though it could be brief, as conservative-leaning states push to maintain a measure that allows officials to expel many but not all asylum-seekers.

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  • National

The U.S. asks court to end asylum limits, with a short delay

Asylum-seekers at the border waited for a Supreme Court ruling that could allow them to enter the United States as the U.S. government asked the Supreme Court not to lift the limits before Christmas.

December 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A pilot gestures from the grounded EC-LZO Boeing 767 flight, initially meant to deport Rwandan asylum-seekers, at Boscombe Down Air Base in Boscombe Down, England, on June 14. The flight taking asylum-seekers from the U.K. to Rwanda was grounded at the last minute, after the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights.

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  • World

U.K. top court upholds a controversial plan to send migrants to Rwanda

The ruling comes months after the government introduced a plan to deport hundreds of potential asylum-seekers to Rwanda. Immigration lawyers and human rights groups have warned of rights violations.

December 19, 2022
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By:
  • Willem Marx
A soldier carries a child from a group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, England, by Border Force, following a small boat incident in the Channel, Tuesday June 14, 2022.

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  • World

U.K. vows more Rwanda deportation flights after legal setback

A Tuesday flight was canceled after the European Court of Human Rights, which said the British plan had a chance of causing "irreversible harm."

June 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Migrants aiming to cross into Poland camp near the Bruzgi-Kuznica border crossing on the Belarusian-Polish border on Nov. 17.

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  • World

Syrians say Belarus deported them even though they're wanted by Assad's regime

After luring asylum-seekers to the EU as a political stunt, Belarus has now sent people back to the dangerous place they were escaping, rights groups and migrants tell NPR.

December 24, 2021
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock and
  • Carol Malouf
Raydel Aparicio Bringa (left) and Doniel Machado Pujol are photographed while being apprehended by Poland's Border Guard in the town of Sokolka, on the Polish border with Belarus. The two men, from Cuba, are among thousands of migrants from impoverished or war-torn countries that the regime of Alexander Lukashenko is accused of luring to Belarus to be sent across the border into the EU.

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  • World

Belarus' Lukashenko is accused of creating Europe's latest migration crisis

Poland has stopped some 16,000 migrants crossing its border from Belarus since August, and accuses Belarus' authoritarian regime of facilitating illegal migration into the European Union.

October 12, 2021
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  • Rob Schmitz
Migrants at the Rio Grande near the port of entry in Del Rio, Texas, on Saturday.

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  • National

The Biden Administration Is Fighting In Court To Keep A Trump-Era Immigration Policy

A rarely used U.S. code pertaining to public health was invoked during the pandemic by the Trump White House to expel asylum-seekers. The Biden White House wants to keep it.

September 20, 2021
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Scott Neuman
President Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House on July 21 after returning from a trip to Cincinnati.

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  • Politics

Pressure Is Building On Biden To Do More For Asylum-Seekers And Migrants

President Biden, who spoke Monday to the nation's largest Latino civil rights group, is under pressure to make good on his promises to fix the immigration system.

July 26, 2021
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Clive Thompson reads aloud the letter that means he and his wife, Oneita, no longer need to fear deportation. They are joined by their son, Timothy, 15.

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  • National

'All Our Opportunity Was Taken Away': Sanctuary Family Slowly Restarts Life

The Thompsons, originally from Jamaica, spent 843 days living in churches in Philadelphia to avoid deportation. Now they are free, but reentry comes with new challenges.

May 13, 2021
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By:
  • Laura Benshoff
General view of the Canarias 50 camp in La Isleta neighborhood, in the city of Las Palmas, in the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands.

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  • World

In Canary Islands, Tensions Are High Over African Migration

The Spanish islands saw a big increase last year of people trying to migrate to Europe by boat. After sheltering many of them in hotels, the authorities have set up camps and stepped up deportations.

March 26, 2021
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  • Sophie Eastaugh
Children are detained in a Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas on March 20. President Biden's administration faces mounting criticism for refusing to allow outside observers into facilities that are detaining thousands of migrant children.

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  • National

CBP Defends Conditions At Border Detention Centers Amid Upsurge In Migrants

U.S. Customs and Border Protection released photos and video of Texas immigrant processing centers that have faced fresh criticism for overcrowding and poor conditions.

March 23, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released the latest statistics on Wednesday showing agents encountered nearly 3,500 migrants a day during February 2021 — a 28% spike over January.

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  • National

Number Of Unaccompanied Minors Entering U.S. Soared In February

The swelling number of minors has left CBP scrambling to quickly move children from detention in crude holding cells built to house adult men to temporary shelters appropriate for adolescents.

March 11, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
Colombian President Iván Duque unveiled a program last month that will allow undocumented Venezuelan migrants to legally live and work in Colombia for up to 10 years.

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  • Latin America

Colombia's President On Amnesty For Venezuelans: 'We Want To Set An Example'

"We want to demonstrate that although we're not a rich country, we can do something that is humanitarian ... but at the same time is an intelligent and sound migration policy," Iván Duque tells NPR.

March 03, 2021
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  • John Otis

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  • World

The Harrowing Journeys To Safety Of Asylum-Seekers During A Pandemic

Rights groups accuse nations of using COVID-19 as an excuse to shut out refugees. Here's one story of migrants attempting a deadly voyage to Europe, only to be pushed back to where they fled.

February 13, 2021
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  • Joanna Kakissis and
  • Abu Bakr Bashir
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