Following the Taliban's latest advance in Afghanistan, swarms of Afghans have attempted to flee the country, with the hope of seeking asylum elsewhere. Asylum is a grant of protection for those ...

The US president has halted decisions on many asylum claims, but the scope, legality and real-world effects of the pause remain unclear ...

“Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet,” was how Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), suggested revising the poem at the ...

Throughout his presidential campaign and his time in office, President Donald Trump has portrayed members of the gang MS-13 as murderous thugs who are pouring into the country from Central America.

She arrived in January 2012 from the Central African country of Burundi, alone, with plans to seek asylum. Her mother and father had been killed separately years earlier in the country’s civil war.

LOS FRESNOS, Texas (AP) — Patricia Aragon told the U.S. asylum officer at her recent case assessment that she was fleeing her native Honduras because she had been robbed and raped by a gang member who ...

At the same time, as a new parent myself, I could understand why a desperate mother might tell a story borrowed from a friend or relative who secured asylum in America. Even though this is — in part — ...