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Lawsuit says US illegally shared confidential information on Iranian asylum seekers with Iran

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LOS ANGELES — A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that the Trump administration’s immigration agencies have been sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government, violating national immigration regulations and endangering countless Iranians, court filings argue. The lawsuit depicts a coordinated campaign between the U.S. and Iranian governments to identify Iranians in Immigration … Read more

Asylum seekers wait at border as US courts renew their hopes

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Saboor’s son asks him one question over and over. When can they go to the United States? The Afghan family – Saboor, his wife, and their 11-year-old son – has been stranded in Mexico since Donald Trump returned to office more than a year ago and suspended asylum access at the southern border. The boy, … Read more

Inside an African hotel where asylum seekers deported by the US are imprisoned

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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — At first glance, the hotel looks like any other on this tropical island off the Central African coast, with its palm tree-lined driveway, marble-floored foyer and portrait of the oil-rich country’s president hanging behind a mahogany reception desk. Yet the eerily empty Bamy Hotel is not a refuge for adventure-seeking tourists … Read more