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There's an appetite in the world with the demonization that's happening to Saudi Arabia that creates more opportunities( for asylum). – Ali Shihabi	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The United States Government violates asylum seekers' rights and fails to uphold responsibilities under international law when The US government expels them to Mexico while they seek refuge in United States. Likewise, the Mexican government is accomplice to this violation when it agrees to accept asylum seekers who fled their countries through Mexico to seek refuge in the United States, the United States government wants to turn Mexico into a vast immigration detention center. – United States	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's undeniable that we have a significant increase in asylum seekers, but that's not so much a job for the military as it is: we need more judges. We need to process them (the asylum seekers) more quickly. – Adam Smith	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
But that's not so much a job for the military as it is: we need more judges. We need to process them (the asylum seekers) more quickly. – Adam Smith	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
They're terrified. They don't know what to do. They don't necessarily want to declare asylum in United States because that reflects badly on their family, but they've also gotten messages from the region that they shouldn't come back because they'll definitely be put in one of these internment camps. – Sean Roberts	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Democrats are itching to investigate him on immigration, he will face questions and hearings about the travel ban, about his decision to end DACA, about his decision to revamp the asylum system. – New York	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We can do better as a nation, this is a humanitarian crisis and we have a moral obligation to ensure these vulnerable families can safely seek asylum, which is legal under immigration and international law at our borders. – Joaquin Castro	Found on CNN 5 years ago
this administration will not tolerate frivolous asylum claims or illegal entry. – Kirstjen Nielsen	added by anonymous 5 years ago
If you were to create this whole new category and give United States grounds to apply for asylum based on climate, you're likely to get an enormous number of people applying because it's so ill-defined, how much below-average rainfall does the rainfall have to be in your region before you're a climate refugee ? At present, the primary receiving countries already are experiencing tremendous resistance to the current level of asylees and refugees. It doesn't seem like resettling people in developed counties is going to be much of an answer to this problem. ... A much more effective use of resources is always to help United States in place. – Steven Camarota	Found on CNN 5 years ago
More than five years in asylum is not human. – Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Omar Jadwat law specifically allows individuals to apply for asylum whether or not they are at a port of entry. It is illegal to circumvent that by agency or presidential decree. – Omar Jadwat	Found on CNN 5 years ago
When Congress in 1996 enacted sweeping immigration enforcement legislation — putting in place the expedited removal system that today allows Border Patrol agents to quickly deport people Border Patrol agents apprehend without any court process — it specifically created the credible fear process to preserve the right of people to seek asylum when they are apprehended between the ports of entry, congress did that knowing that if it circumscribed the right to seek protection, then it would run afoul of our obligations under Tom Jawetz and international law to not return people to face persecution abroad. The interim final rule issued today acknowledges this history even as it attempts to undo it entirely. – Tom Jawetz	Found on CNN 5 years ago
( They) are proving to be quite violent. They are covering their faces, they are attacking the federal police there, attacking the military in Mexico, they are putting the migrants, who are in the caravan, who are seeking asylum, at risk. – Kirstjen Nielsen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Asylum was never meant to alleviate all problems, even all serious problems, that people face every day all over the world. – Jeff Sessions	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Even when this administration otherwise banned large numbers of Muslims, it explicitly provided that it was not taking away the right to apply for asylum, but if the reports are correct, under this new plan, the administration would now target asylum and refuse to protect individuals who can prove that United States will be persecuted -- a breathtaking moral failure. – Omar Jadwat	Found on CNN 5 years ago
To do that, Tom Jawetz is targeting asylum seekers and women and children fleeing violence and persecution. – Tom Jawetz	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It has been widely reported by the media that most of the people in the caravan are coming to United States for economic reasons, and that is not grounds for political asylum, there are countless failing countries across the globe where there is a breakdown of civil society, which is obviously a very serious issue, but it is not political persecution. – Omar Jadwat	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Almost every major figure in scripture was a refugee or sought asylum at some point in their life. They helped us be strong advocates. – Steve Carlsen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This ruling means the Trump administration cannot use indefinite detention as a weapon to punish and deter asylum seekers. – Michael Tan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We cannot leave those countries where asylum seekers arrive to deal with (the problem) alone. – Angela Merkel	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Lifeline will be granted permission to enter a Maltese port, where procedures for identification, ascertaining their asylum eligibility, and distribution to other member states will start immediately, the Maltese government took the lead on a solution before the situation escalated to a humanitarian crisis. – Joseph Muscat	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'd be hesitant reading too much into this, the travel ban focuses on a very specific attribute of immigration, which is entry. It doesn't focus on people who are already here. So this doesn't necessarily speak to something like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or asylum, people who already entered United States. – Josh Blackman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
From the next week we want migrants to be rejected at the border if they have already registered in another European country and should therefore go through the asylum procedure there, i do not understand talking about possible future solutions for Europe while not being prepared to do what Germany can do now. – Alexander Dobrindt	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What we're proposing is to have Europe-funded detention centers in the closest and safest country (from the source of the refugee flows), and from these European detention centers... teams should take the people who did not win asylum status back to the country they came from. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

There's an appetite in the world with the demonization that's happening to Saudi Arabia that creates more opportunities( for asylum).

– Ali Shihabi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The United States Government violates asylum seekers' rights and fails to uphold responsibilities under international law when The US government expels them to Mexico while they seek refuge in United States. Likewise, the Mexican government is accomplice to this violation when it agrees to accept asylum seekers who fled their countries through Mexico to seek refuge in the United States, the United States government wants to turn Mexico into a vast immigration detention center.

– United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's undeniable that we have a significant increase in asylum seekers, but that's not so much a job for the military as it is: we need more judges. We need to process them (the asylum seekers) more quickly.

– Adam Smith

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

But that's not so much a job for the military as it is: we need more judges. We need to process them (the asylum seekers) more quickly.

– Adam Smith

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They're terrified. They don't know what to do. They don't necessarily want to declare asylum in United States because that reflects badly on their family, but they've also gotten messages from the region that they shouldn't come back because they'll definitely be put in one of these internment camps.

– Sean Roberts

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Democrats are itching to investigate him on immigration, he will face questions and hearings about the travel ban, about his decision to end DACA, about his decision to revamp the asylum system.

– New York

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We can do better as a nation, this is a humanitarian crisis and we have a moral obligation to ensure these vulnerable families can safely seek asylum, which is legal under immigration and international law at our borders.

– Joaquin Castro

Found on CNN
5 years ago

this administration will not tolerate frivolous asylum claims or illegal entry.

– Kirstjen Nielsen

added by anonymous
5 years ago

If you were to create this whole new category and give United States grounds to apply for asylum based on climate, you're likely to get an enormous number of people applying because it's so ill-defined, how much below-average rainfall does the rainfall have to be in your region before you're a climate refugee ? At present, the primary receiving countries already are experiencing tremendous resistance to the current level of asylees and refugees. It doesn't seem like resettling people in developed counties is going to be much of an answer to this problem. ... A much more effective use of resources is always to help United States in place.

– Steven Camarota

Found on CNN
5 years ago

More than five years in asylum is not human.

– Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Omar Jadwat law specifically allows individuals to apply for asylum whether or not they are at a port of entry. It is illegal to circumvent that by agency or presidential decree.

– Omar Jadwat

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When Congress in 1996 enacted sweeping immigration enforcement legislation — putting in place the expedited removal system that today allows Border Patrol agents to quickly deport people Border Patrol agents apprehend without any court process — it specifically created the credible fear process to preserve the right of people to seek asylum when they are apprehended between the ports of entry, congress did that knowing that if it circumscribed the right to seek protection, then it would run afoul of our obligations under Tom Jawetz and international law to not return people to face persecution abroad. The interim final rule issued today acknowledges this history even as it attempts to undo it entirely.

– Tom Jawetz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

( They) are proving to be quite violent. They are covering their faces, they are attacking the federal police there, attacking the military in Mexico, they are putting the migrants, who are in the caravan, who are seeking asylum, at risk.

– Kirstjen Nielsen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Asylum was never meant to alleviate all problems, even all serious problems, that people face every day all over the world.

– Jeff Sessions

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Even when this administration otherwise banned large numbers of Muslims, it explicitly provided that it was not taking away the right to apply for asylum, but if the reports are correct, under this new plan, the administration would now target asylum and refuse to protect individuals who can prove that United States will be persecuted -- a breathtaking moral failure.

– Omar Jadwat

Found on CNN
5 years ago

To do that, Tom Jawetz is targeting asylum seekers and women and children fleeing violence and persecution.

– Tom Jawetz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It has been widely reported by the media that most of the people in the caravan are coming to United States for economic reasons, and that is not grounds for political asylum, there are countless failing countries across the globe where there is a breakdown of civil society, which is obviously a very serious issue, but it is not political persecution.

– Omar Jadwat

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Almost every major figure in scripture was a refugee or sought asylum at some point in their life. They helped us be strong advocates.

– Steve Carlsen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This ruling means the Trump administration cannot use indefinite detention as a weapon to punish and deter asylum seekers.

– Michael Tan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We cannot leave those countries where asylum seekers arrive to deal with (the problem) alone.

– Angela Merkel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Lifeline will be granted permission to enter a Maltese port, where procedures for identification, ascertaining their asylum eligibility, and distribution to other member states will start immediately, the Maltese government took the lead on a solution before the situation escalated to a humanitarian crisis.

– Joseph Muscat

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I'd be hesitant reading too much into this, the travel ban focuses on a very specific attribute of immigration, which is entry. It doesn't focus on people who are already here. So this doesn't necessarily speak to something like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or asylum, people who already entered United States.

– Josh Blackman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

From the next week we want migrants to be rejected at the border if they have already registered in another European country and should therefore go through the asylum procedure there, i do not understand talking about possible future solutions for Europe while not being prepared to do what Germany can do now.

– Alexander Dobrindt

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

What we're proposing is to have Europe-funded detention centers in the closest and safest country (from the source of the refugee flows), and from these European detention centers... teams should take the people who did not win asylum status back to the country they came from.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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