Asylum

President Joe Biden says democracy is an “essential ingredient” for the Western Hemisphere’s future, an implicit rebuttal to leaders from around the world who boycotted the Summit of the Americas because authoritarians were not invited. He also drew sharp contrasts around one of the issues central to the summit, immigration, saying “safe and orderly migration is good for all of...

Congressional leaders in New England are calling for a federal investigation into the low rate of approvals by the region’s asylum office. Eight Democratic lawmakers from Massachusetts and Maine issued a letter Thursday seeking a formal review of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Boston asylum office. It processes claims for refugees in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island....

In one of the busiest corridors for illegal border crossings, Cubans, Colombians and Venezuelans are released with ease to pursue asylum in the United States. Meanwhile, Hondurans struggle to be allowed to pursue asylum after entering the country. The opposite fortunes illustrate the dual nature of border enforcement under pandemic-era limits on seeking asylum, known as Title 42 authority. President...

A federal judge in Louisiana is refusing to end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border. The judge on Friday blocked a plan by President Joe Biden’s administration to lift the restrictions next Monday. Migrants have been expelled more than 1.9 million times since March 2020 under federal Title 42 authority. The provision denies migrants a chance...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday that authorities were prepared for an anticipated increase in migrants crossing the border from Mexico, days before a public health order is set to end after being used to turn people away nearly 2 million times without a chance to seek asylum. A federal judge may order that pandemic-related asylum limits continue, but…

The Biden administration is making it easier for refugees fleeing Russia’s war on Ukraine to come to the United States from Europe while trying to shut down an informal route through northern Mexico that’s emerged in recent weeks.

The Biden administration has begun phasing out use of a pandemic-related public health rule that allows the expulsion of migrants without giving them an opportunity to seek asylum.

A man who fled civil war in Cameroon doesn’t begrudge the U.S. for swiftly granting humanitarian protections to Ukrainians, but can’t help wondering what would happen if the millions leaving that Eastern Europe nation were a different hue.

Unaccompanied child migrants trying to enter the United States will no longer be denied a chance to seek asylum under new guidance announced by U.S. health authorities

A federal appeals court has upheld sweeping asylum restrictions to prevent spread of COVID-19 but restored protections to keep migrant families from being expelled to their home countries without a chance to plead their cases

Portland, Maine, is trying to house hundreds of asylum seekers — some families are still spending years in hotels.

The Belarusian Olympian, 24, told the Associated Press this week that team officials “made it clear that, upon return home, I would definitely face some form of punishment” after she criticized her coaches (in a since-deleted Instagram post) for allegedly forcing her to compete in the 4×400 meter relay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, even though she has never competed in the event.

Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya will reportedly seek asylum in Poland after her coaches tried to force her onto a plane back to her home country Sunday. The sprinter, who had been set to compete in the 200m on Monday, said the Belarusian staff was trying to punish her for speaking publicly against her coaches on Instagram and feared for her...

An attorney suing the federal government says the Biden administration has agreed to let about 250 people a day through border crossings with Mexico to seek refuge in the United States.

In a camp at the U.S.-Mexico border, some asylum seekers were told by officials that the U.S. government would reopen their cases and they would eventually be able to enter the U.S. to wait out the asylum process

The Biden administration is ending agreements with three Central American nations that were part of an effort to restrict asylum under President Donald Trump

Maria Macario has been living inside a Massachusetts church for over three years to avoid deportation to Guatemala.

Dozens of immigrants from Massachusetts to Colorado who have taken sanctuary as a last resort to stay in the U.S. are newly hopeful under President Joe Biden.

President-elect Joe Biden says it will take months to roll back some of President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration.

It started as a kind of pop-up school on a sidewalk to teach reading, writing and math to Central American children living in a camp of U.S. asylum seekers stuck in Mexico.