Sentences with phrase «seeking asylum as»

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The Trump administration has cited criminal activity such as human smuggling and drug trafficking as reasons to crack down on the border, but Trump himself has appeared preoccupied with a «caravan» of central American migrants, some of whom intended to travel through Mexico to the US border and either seek asylum or cross the border undetected.

As a caravan of Central America migrants makes camp in Tijuana waiting to seek asylum, concerns grow about the spread of diseases in such close quarters.

This is the same prince of the Church who has called for the arrest of asylum - seeking dissidents in his churches, and in April of 2012, at Harvard University, ridiculed these persecuted Cubans as «former delinquents» and «people with psychological disturbances» who lacked «any cultural level.»

Update (Feb. 27): The Star - Ledger takes a closer look at the decision, noting the eight refugees — including a few who have been living at the church for more than one year — are part of a group of 80 Indonesians seeking asylum in the area, as well as the status of a congressional bill that would resolve their situation.

Catherine Gladwell, director of Refugee Support Network, a charity that works with hundreds of asylum - seeking children, explained: «A lot of young people tell us that some of the things that happen to them on the way to the UK are just as difficult and just as traumatic as things that happened to cause them to leave in the first place.

As a result, many asylum - seeking torture survivors are unable to meet essential living needs.

Most kids who come to the UK and claim asylum are rejected and instead granted given leave to remain as an unaccompanied asylum - seeking child.

In much the same way as government ministers motivated the Asylum and Immigration Act and defended their treatment of refugees in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards».

But they are then given leave to remain as an unaccompanied asylum - seeking child.

This was at a time when the Foreign Office under William Hague was making a big fanfare about challenging rape as a weapon of war, but the Home Office was routinely deporting women seeking asylum who had endured this awful crime.

The council is supporting significant numbers of unaccompanied asylum - seeking children who do not have English as a second language and require additional support in schools.

I met dozens of refugees from across the Middle East, as well as people who were seeking asylum from a number of countries in North Africa.

Refugees seeking asylum in the United States are twice as likely to be granted protection if their application is supported by medical documentation of torture, writes Jules Lipoff, MD, an assistant professor of Clinical Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and two colleagues in the March 7, 2016 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

With a recent influx of asylum seeking immigrants that has altered the homogeneity somewhat, Norwegian men and women are open to outsiders in the dating world, as long as they are not subject to archaic traditions and values.

During the Spanish Civil War she volunteered as a nurse, then sought asylum in France after Franco's victory.

PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, THURSDAY, 1:36 PM: Open Road Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the untitled Oliver Stone - directed film that will star Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Edward Snowden, the American who fled to Russia seeking asylum after making public more classified documents than anyone since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War.

Led by the titular protagonist — a former insurgent seeking to wash the blood of the Sri Lankan civil war from his hands — three Tamils gain asylum in France by passing themselves off as a family.

So, he moves to Turkey unaware that the she's already in Germany and seeking political asylum as a dissident.

The story follows NSA whistleblower Snowden (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) as he moves from Hawaii to Hong Kong where he met documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras (director of the Oscar - winning Citizenfour) and journalist Glenn Greenwald to hand over top - secret NSA documents, all before seeking asylum in Russia.

Years later, when an earthquake ruins their home and kills the male, the grandson of the bears leaves for London in a lifeboat on a cargo boat with nothing but a hat and a can - do attitude and what can only be described as a shit - ton of marmalade, seeking asylum in the house of any Londoners who might take him in.

These two factors are threats to asylum - seeking as well as effective refugee protection around the world.

Legal Algerian cartoonist Djamel Ghanem is seeking asylum in France as the prosecution and plaintiff appeal his acquittal on charges that he insulted Algeria's president in an unpublished cartoon...

As Castro takes power of Cuba in 1961, Lucia and her brother seek asylum in the United States.

In one film, the filmmaker interviews a Nigerian refugee seeking asylum in London about his experiences as a child soldier.

Geers was born into Apartheid South Africa, but at a very tender age fled to London the regime as a refugee, seeking political asylum.

Iannone's piece was conceived before the recent months of upheaval in the United States around immigration, an already contested topic; these recent debates have raised the Statue of Liberty anew as a symbol of the openness of New York City and the United States to those seeking asylum, freedom, or simply a better life.

The Directive seeks to establish minimum standards and common criteria for all the Member States regarding the recognition of asylum seekers as refugee within the meaning of Article 1 of the Refugee Convention.

«Court Urges Review of New York Judge's Immigration Cases That Are on Appeal»: The New York Times today contains an article that begins, «In a move that immigration lawyers say is highly unusual, a federal appeals court has recommended that a Justice Department appeals board review all immigration cases still on appeal involving a judge who has been criticized as being hostile to people seeking asylum.

As but one reaction to the decision, Jean Lambert MEP applauds the judgment, [29] hoping that it would be applied to those who seek asylum from the 76 [sic] countries in the world which criminalise same - sex conduct.

The attorneys at Keen Law Offices, LLC will evaluate your case, do what is possible to address your conviction, and discuss your options as far as seeking cancellation of removal, asylum, or an adjustment of status.

The ECtHR rejected the narrow interpretation of this provision suggested by the applicant that as soon as an asylum seeker had surrendered to the authorities, detention was no longer justified under Art 5 because he was no longer seeking «unauthorised entry».

In addition to separation and unaccompaniment, increased psychological risk also occurs as a result of the process of sought asylum (Silove et al., 1997; Sourander, 1998).

Findings of these studies are pertinent as they reflect areas of research in unaccompanied samples and direct effects of the asylum seeking process that are largely under investigated in the empirical literature.

Figures vary but with approximately three quarters of the children and young people in care being placed with foster carers, we still need more foster carers to look after specific groups of children such as teenagers, children from ethnic minority groups, sibling groups and unaccompanied asylum seeking young people.