Trump’s asylum ban and kangaroo tent courts threaten to destroy a pillar of international humanitarian law. What can we do?
Posts Tagged: asylum
There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations under international law.
The administration has discussed warehousing refugee children at the notorious prison.
Over 22.5 million people have been forced to flee their countries. Last year, less than 200,000 were resettled.
Central American children fleeing poverty and gang violence are refugees—often from situations U.S. policies have helped to create—and they should be treated as such.
Decades of short-sighted, inhumane U.S. policies have brought a child refugee crisis to America's door.
Turkey is in the process of normalizing its asylum procedures and providing legal assistance for refugees seeking safety within its borders.
Afghans who have sacrificed their homes and futures to the U.S. occupation deserve the chance to make a new life abroad.
A new book looks at the history and current importance of the sanctuary movement.