April 25, 2014 -North Korea’s news agency reports that Matthew Todd Miller was taken into custody on April 10. According to KCNA, Miller entered North Korea seeking asylum and tour up his tourist visa. June 30, 2014 -North Korea says that it plans to prosecute Miller and another detained...
Protect those seeking refuge, by providing information about the right to seek asylum and coordinating with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to help resettle children and families who need protection. Elizabeth supports additional legal immigration, including expanded family reunification an...
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Founded in 1974, the Center provides free legal support and educational services to indigent Haitian aliens in their political asylum proceedings. It works to impede deportations and to publicize the plight of refugees. Contact:Philies Auguh, Executive Director. Address:119 Northeast 54th Street, Mi...
By 1996, 63,068 were housed in refugee camps in south India, another 30,000-40,000 lived outside the Indian camps, and more than 200,000 Tamils have sought political asylum in the West. According to 1996 U.S. Immigration and Naturalization records, 1,277 Sri Lankans were naturalized. ...
Why aren't these "asylum-seekers" seeking asylum in Mexico? It's because they aren't asylum-seekers. They are simply looking for the economic opportunities afforded people in the U.S. and all the free stuff they can collect. And even then, we have seen them reject American charity as ...
In Lionel Cantu Jr.’s essay, Political Asylum and the Boundaries of Sexual Identity in the U.S. – Mexico Borderlands, he discusses the process of seeking asylum on the basis of persecution on sexual orientation. Asylum is when an individual leaves their own country as a refugee in order ...
Second, when Africans first began seeking asylum in the early 1980s, there was a desire among African governments, the OAU, and the United Nations to relocate African refugees in other African countries. Lastly, the fear of uncommon diseases being introduced to the United States made politicians...
With the outbreak of the Spanish civil war in 1936 a number of intellectual political refugees found asylum in the United States. Supporters of the overthrown Spanish Republic, which had received aid from the Soviet Union while under attack from fascist forces, were sometimes incorrectly identified ...