by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours | Jun 21, 2026 | Asylum Seekers, Canada, immigration, News, Refugees
Toronto, Canada — Ale saw Canada as a lifeline. Members of a drug cartel in her home country of Mexico had her in their sights, and over the course of three years, the 32-year-old had been beaten, raped, kidnapped, and extorted for thousands of dollars. The cartel members had threatened her and her parents, and they killed her dog. Yet despite pleading with local police for help…
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by Eileen Grench | Jun 21, 2026 | Asylum Seekers, Deportation, Deportations, due process, Immigrants, immigration, Immigration Court, immigration courts, New York, News
For nearly eight hours, a group of Haitian immigrants and asylum seekers had waited at the Manhattan immigration courthouse on Broadway last Tuesday before they found out it had all been for naught. They would have to come back another time to see the judge. One man rocked with his head between his hands as the judge explained that all the Haitian interpreters had dropped off their calls.
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by Rebecca Gordon | Mar 25, 2026 | Asylum Seekers, Concentration Camps, ICE, Internment Camps, Op-Ed, Todd Lyons, Trump Administration
The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him. In other words, U.S.
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by Sasha Abramsky | Mar 10, 2026 | AfD, Alternative for Germany (AfD), Asylum, Asylum Seekers, Deportation, Deportations, Europe, far right, France, Germany, immigration, Iran, Israel, Italy, Nigel Farage, Op-Ed, Reform U.K. Party, Refugees, Spain, UK
Earlier this week, as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran intensified, U.K. Reform Party leader Nigel Farage doubled down on his anti-immigrant and anti-refugee stances. If, he declared, refugees start leaving Iran in large numbers, they will have to be housed in the Middle East; Britain simply can’t take in any more. Farage spoke about the U.S.-Israeli operation in Iran in glowing terms.
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by Sasha Abramsky | Feb 23, 2026 | 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, Asylum Seekers, Department of Homeland Security, Op-Ed, refugee cap, Refugees
Anahita Panahi has spent the last year trying to put out fires set by Trump 2.0. Panahi, who leads the refugee and asylee advocacy work at the California-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles, has gotten used to public policies that are gratuitously cruel toward immigrants. She has spent months now navigating extreme interpretations of provisions in the federal code to make…
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by Sasha Abramsky | Feb 6, 2026 | Asylum, Asylum Seekers, elections, far right, immigration, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Nigel Farage, Op-Ed, Reform U.K. Party, Trump Administration, UK
In recent months, as the anti-immigrant Reform U.K. Party surged to the top of the polls, the U.K.’s Labour government has sought to make it harder for immigrants to get “indefinite leave to remain” — essentially a British version of the U.S. green card — as well as restrict access to benefits for immigrants. Currently, immigrants can seek “indefinite leave to remain” after five years in the…
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