UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

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Thousands of migrants are now in limbo at the U.S.-Mexico border after President Trump shut down the main legal channel for asylum seekers to enter the country. Many had waited months for immigration ...

Washington — Citing President Trump's extraordinary move to close the American asylum system, U.S. border agents have been instructed to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country ...

More is coming, but many directives will take time to be implemented or will face political, legal or practical obstacles. By Michael D. Shear Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs Reporting from ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Donald Trump has had a busy first 24 hours back in the White House. He attended various events and ...

The Trump administration has essentially eliminated the ability to pursue asylum at the border, attempting to erase by executive order a right established in U.S. and international law. The ...

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A boy, aged two, and a man, 41, have been stabbed to death in a horror attack in Germany after a suspected asylum seeker armed with a knife ambushed a nursery group. The child, who was ...

The US-Mexico border is effectively closed off to migrants seeking asylum in the United States within hours of President Donald Trump taking office, an extraordinary departure from previous ...

A woman on the Paso del Norte International border bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, learns the appointment she made through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP One application was canceled ...