GOP lawmaker introduces bill to strip asylum from fraudsters who vacation in countries they ‘fled’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: A top Republican moved Thursday to block asylum claims from foreigners who return to their home countries, introducing legislation after family members of deceased Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qassem Soleimani were found to be living in Los Angeles. Soleimani’s niece, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, and her … Read more

Immigrants seeking asylum are ordered to countries they’ve never been to

The Afghan man had fled the Taliban for refuge in upstate New York when U.S. immigration authorities ordered him deported to Uganda. The Cuban woman was working at a Texas Chick-fil-A when she arrested after a minor traffic accident and told she was being sent to Ecuador. There’s the Mauritanian man living in Michigan told … Read more

Trump admin eases asylum freeze for vetted migrants, keeps bans on ‘high-risk’ nations

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday it is slackening restrictions on asylum applications set in place after an Afghan asylee allegedly murdered one West Virginia National Guardsman and gravely wounded another in Washington last fall. The November incident near Farragut Square led President Donald Trump to … Read more

Trump administration scaling back asylum crackdown enacted after D.C. National Guard shooting, sources say

The Trump administration is scaling back a crackdown on asylum that brought hundreds of thousands of immigration applications to a halt, two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News. In late November, after the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., allegedly at the hands of an Afghan man who had been … Read more

Alito blasts lawyer’s word-salad blurring asylum law

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pushed back Tuesday on an attorney defending migrants seeking asylum, challenging the argument that those stopped at the border have “arrived in” the United States — a key issue in an immigration case. The case stems from a Trump administration petition asking … Read more

Family of boy in bunny hat detained with his dad is denied asylum claim, lawyer says

MINNEAPOLIS — An immigration judge has denied the asylum claim of the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy photographed in a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack as he was detained with his father during the immigration crackdown that shook Minneapolis earlier this year, a family lawyer said. They were ordered deported to Ecuador, … Read more

Federal judge denies asylum claim for family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, Minnesota school district says

A federal judge has denied the asylum claim for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Minnesota boy whose arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in January gained national attention.  According to a statement from Columbia Heights Public School District, where Ramos attends school, an immigration judge “ended the asylum claims of … Read more

5th member of Iran women’s soccer team changes mind on accepting asylum in Australia

Kuala Lumpur Malaysia — Another member of the Iran women’s soccer team who accepted a refugee visa to stay in Australia has decided to return to her homeland, a sport official said Monday. That leaves two of an initial seven squad members who’d accepted asylum as sticking with their original decisions. The Iranian women’s soccer team had … Read more

3 more members of Iran women’s soccer team change course, decline to accept asylum in Australia

Another three members of the Iran women’s soccer team who accepted refugee visas to stay in Australia have decided to return to their homeland, an Australian government minister said on Sunday local time. The departure leaves three of an initial seven squad members in Australia. “Overnight, three members of the Iranian Women’s Football Team made the … Read more