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Drug violence spawns rise in Mexicans seeking political asylum in US
Guadalupe :: Mexico | 1 month ago
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Published April 22, 2013 Fox News Latino It used to be virtually impossible for Mexicans to gain admission to the United States as refugees until the increasingly violent and powerful drug cartels made certain parts of the country unlivable for many.
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Bureaucrats forced into last-minute pitch to save some refugee health benefits
Toronto :: Canada | 5 months ago
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Stephanie Levitz The Canadian Press Published Monday, Jan. 07 2013, 4:32 PM EST Last updated Monday, Jan. 07 2013, 4:32 PM EST Civil servants in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration had to scramble to make the case for preserving some
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A backward step beyond the Pacific Solution
Sydney :: Australia | 7 months ago
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people who flee persecution or death must be given refuge. The fate of refugees from Nazi Germany who were turned away prompted convention signatories to accept this principle as legally binding. Those lessons are forgotten in the irrationality of
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Young New Immigrants Helped by the Refugee Youth Summer Academy
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 months ago
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In June, he had left his home in the West African nation with his mother and 12 siblings...None of the children had been on a plane before, and only one could speak any English. They were met by their father, Abdoulaye Diallo, a Muslim imam who had
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Young New Immigrants Helped by the Refugee Youth Summer Academy
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 months ago
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In June, he had left his home in the West African nation with his mother and 12 siblings...None of the children had been on a plane before, and only one could speak any English. They were met by their father, Abdoulaye Diallo, a Muslim imam who had
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Report: 116 Israelis granted asylum in U.S.
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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A new report by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services revealed that over the past seven years 405 Israelis have petitioned for asylum in the United States, and 116 such requests were granted. According to an Aug. 13 report in Yedioth
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SOUTH AFRICA: Marie, i¿½Iti¿½s been a long journey and a painful onei¿½
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 10 months ago
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Marie*, her husband and their three children, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), are about to relocate from South Africa, where they have lived for the past decade, to Australia where they have been accepted into that country's
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Waiting to be granted asylum
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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Dear T.A., While the United Kingdom (UK) authorities are considering applications for asylum, there are certain things that can be expected. As of March 2007, when a person makes a new asylum application, he or she is placed with an individual who is
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Woman abused in Guatemala wins asylum case
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
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A Guatemalan woman who fled to the U.S. after she was brutally beaten and raped by her common law husband won a seven-year battle on Thursday to obtain asylum. An immigration judge in Los Angeles approved the 39-year-old woman's case after the
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Asylum denied to man forced to aid terrorist group
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
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An immigrant is ineligible for political asylum in the United States if he has provided support to a terrorist organization, even if he was coerced by threat of death, the federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled. The law that denies asylum
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