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A New Hurdle for Asylum Seekers: 4 Hours to Find a Lawyer
The new time constraint comes after President Biden announced a near-total ban on asylum on the southern border.
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How Biden’s Asylum Order Works
The president issued an executive order that essentially blocks asylum claims at the southern border, a major shift in how the United States has handl [...]
Biden Issues Executive Order to Temporarily Seal the Border to Asylum Seekers
The move shows how drastically immigration politics have shifted in the United States. The American Civil Liberties Union said it planned to challenge [...]
Biden Expected to Sign Executive Order Restricting Asylum
The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow the president to temporarily seal the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the Uni [...]
No credible asylum plan, says Public Accounts Committee
1 hour agoDominic Casciani,Home and legal correspondent, @BBCDomCBBCA hostel in Rwanda, earmarked for asylum seekers from the UK, has been awaiting ar [...]
Rwanda plan expanded to include failed asylum seekers
Those who have had an asylum claim refused or withdrawn and cannot appeal could now also be deported.
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Biden Aims to Speed Up Asylum Screenings in Certain Cases
As President Biden considers sweeping changes to the U.S. asylum system, he is also taking smaller steps to try to control the backlogs.
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Sunak rules out asylum seeker returns from Ireland
The Irish government can not "cherry-pick" its promises about the border with Northern Ireland, the PM warns.
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Asylum homelessness rises as refugees told to leave accommodation
During the whole of 2023, local councils in England accepted 9,580 households as needing help after becoming homeless because they had had to leave as [...]
First failed asylum seeker goes to Rwanda voluntarily
The asylum seeker received £3,000 and went under a scheme separate to the forced returns scheme.
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Ireland to redesignate UK as 'safe' for asylum
It follows Irish government concerns that the UK's Rwanda policy is fuelling Irish asylum cases.
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Rwanda plan: Irish government wants to send asylum seekers back to UK
A spokesman for Mr Harris said the taoiseach had asked Ms McEntee "to bring proposals to Cabinet next week to amend existing law regarding the designa [...]
UK aid spending on asylum seekers rises again
New Foreign Office statistics show about £4.3bn was spent last year on asylum costs at home.
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Asylum sites to cost more than hotels – watchdog
Cost of four sites will run to £1.2bn and outstrip estimated bill for private rooms, watchdog finds.
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Government 'playing games' over asylum plan
A cut to the number of asylum seekers to be housed at the site is an "election ploy", warns a council leader.
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