Asylum Seekers

Neither the declining number of border arrivals nor the intransigence of congressional Republicans has improved the President’s standing on the issue.

A Harlem nonprofit works on behalf of hundreds of African migrants who are languishing in shelters, struggling with language barriers, and trying to make it in New York City.

It’s hard to imagine an area of federal policymaking more vexed than immigration, generally, and asylum, specifically.

Recently, the Administration proposed a new border rule that one advocate called “asylum Ticketmaster.”

The Florida Governor’s political stunt rests on the cynical assumption that no one actually wants to offer refuge to people fleeing adversity.

A plane was on the runway when the European Court of Human Rights interceded. Now Britain may leave the court.

The drowning of twenty-seven people in the English Channel was not an inevitable disaster.

The current tragedy at the border is just the latest fallout from the U.S.’s failed policies toward Haiti.

As migrants arrive in the Rio Grande Valley, residents debate the latest chapter of America’s decades-old conundrum.

Hundreds in the city have joined an ad-hoc shelter system, opening spare bedrooms and living rooms to migrants and asylum seekers.

Cecilia Muñoz discusses the Biden Administration’s response to the recent surge of arrivals and how conversations about the border have changed during the past thirty years.

The new Administration is coming under fire for a policy it says protects young migrants.

Sarah Stillman explains how seemingly bureaucratic changes made asylum almost unobtainable under Donald Trump. Plus, a live performance from the Weather Station.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, the policy counsel at the American Immigration Council, talks about Trump’s increasing success in reshaping American immigration policy, from the travel bans to the crackdown on migrants trying to claim asylum at the Mexican border.

Ajay Kumar, an asylum seeker from India, went on a hunger strike to protest the “animal-like treatment” he faced in ICE custody. His strike has drawn attention the harsh conditions migrants face at the border.

I wish these children no harm, but our conversations are not private. Every result will leave my office, leave my hands, and factor somehow—in ways I cannot know or predict—into this child’s uncertain future.

Under the new safe-third-country agreements, the U.S. will be sending asylum seekers to the same countries that many of the migrants are already fleeing.

In the President’s eyes, procedure exists only to thwart him, and experts only complicate things.

“The Guatemalans did not know what they were getting into,” a Trump Administration official said.

The biggest, and most unsettling, question raised by the agreement is how Guatemala could possibly cope with such enormous demands.