The Biden administration announced a new policy Thursday that overhauls the system for immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. Immigration judges will no longer hear claims. Instead, asylum officers ...

Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said that he has already applied for asylum in the Netherlands, claiming that as an asylum seeker, he has the right to non-refoulement and can no longer be ...

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As the situation in Venezuela continues, the number of asylum applications by citizens of that country has soared. Last year, there were some 27,000 Venezuelan asylum seekers worldwide. So far in 2017 ...