asylum seeker

Karzan Mohamed Sharif Amin and his family are almost alone as asylum seekers in Hungary/ AFP
Europe

EU sees asylum requests jump 28% so far in 2023

Numbers have since rebounded, with 2022 seeing a 53-percent rise in applications, putting many EU countries "under pressure"

FILE PHOTO: Japan's naval ship 'Mogami', featuring stealth capability, is seen next to a Japan's national flag at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan September 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool/File Photo
World+Biz

Japan revises law to ease deportation of failed asylum seekers

Asylum-seeking migrants from Central America, who were airlifted from Brownsville to El Paso, Texas, and deported from the U.S., walk towards Mexico at the Paso del Norte International border bridge, in this picture taken from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
USA

Federal judge halts preparations for end of US asylum limit

Asylum-seeking migrant families from Central America wait to be processed by the US Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States of America from Mexico in Roma, Texas, US, July 28, 2021. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
World+Biz

US starts flying migrant families into Mexico far from border

Volunteer Elizabeth Murray helps hand water to local residents at Butler Stadium after the city of Houston implemented a boil water advisory following an unprecedented winter storm in Houston, Texas, US, February 21, 2021. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
World+Biz

US to admit asylum seekers from hard-hit camp at Texas border

Cuban migrants, under the "Remain in Mexico" program, celebrate after media announced that Democratic US presidential nominee Joe Biden has won the 2020 US presidential election in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
US Election 2020

Biden win bolsters asylum seekers' hopes of policy shift

US still aiming for deal with Mexico on asylum seekers
Politics

US still aiming for deal with Mexico on asylum seekers

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reacts to testimony from Yazmin Juarez, mother of 19-month-old Mariee, who died after detention by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); during a House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services hearing titled, "Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border" in Washington, US July 10, 2019/REUTERS
World+Biz

"World should know," migrant tells US Congress of toddler's death