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asylum seekers

Immigration
A new wave of Kurds fleeing Turkey bring their own sound to Nashville’s Music City
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Newly arriving Jewish refugee from the Nazi Holocaust wave from the ship "S.S. Awarea" as it pulls into Haifa port on April 6, 1948.
Immigration
Deporting asylum-seekers without giving them a chance to make their case would violate US and international laws
Jamal is a Syrian refugee living in Tokyo. He's made friends there and learned Japanese. But he misses Syrian food.
Global Politics
Meet one of the handful of Syrians granted asylum in Japan
A view of hands on the window of a prison cell door
Global Politics
Poor health care in immigrant detention centers may get worse under Trump
Front of building with sign for Prairieland Detention Center
Justice
President Trump, how will you handle cases of abuse at privately run prisons and immigration detention centers?
Woman with large green card poster yells
Global Politics
#7. @realdonaldtrump: In addition to undocumented immigrants, are you prioritizing deportation of lawful US residents? #100Days100Qs
Front of building with sign for Prairieland Detention Center
Economics
In a small Texas town, a new private detention center for transgender migrants brings jobs — and concerns
Somali refugees
Media
Three Somali journalists on Lesbos hope for the best — asylum in Europe
Justice
Moms go on a hunger strike to get themselves and their kids out of immigration detention
Obaidullah Naseri and Mortaza Behboudi at the Migrants' ball in Paris. Behboudi, right, is an Afghan journalist who sought aslyum in France.
Music
Paris hosts a ‘Migrant Ball,’ but it wasn’t just for migrants
A young refugee sleeps as he waits for his bus to take off from a detention center in Hungary.
Global Politics
Hoping for a quick trip through Hungary, refugees get stuck on the bus
Participants in a grassroots anti-Muslim movement hold German flags during a demonstration in Berlin. The rise of the group, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, has shaken Germany's political establishment.
Conflict
Germany’s anti-immigrant movement spooks the country’s leaders