Jason Hopkins President Donald Trump is proposing to slash the refugee ceiling next year to its lowest level since the refugee resettlement program began nearly 40 years ago. The Trump administration proposed Thursday to set the fiscal year 2020 cap on refugees to 18,000, according to a conference call with senior administration officials. The administration…
Kevin Daley – The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce new restrictions on asylum seekers at the southern border. – In practice, the new rules would deny asylum to any migrant who passed through another country without first seeking protected status there. – A federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction…
Kevin Daley – A federal judge in California restored a nationwide injunction against one of President Donald Trump’s proposed asylum restrictions, which would deny asylum to migrants who passed through another country without first seeking protected status there. – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously trimmed that injunction’s reach. The Trump administration has…
Jason Hopkinson Republish Reprint President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to give law enforcement officials the authority to conduct interviews with asylum seekers arriving on the U.S.-Mexico border. Under the upcoming plan, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers would train Border Patrol agents deployed on the southern border on how to perform “credible fear…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti The dissident Russian “artist” Pyotr Pavlensky, famous for nailing his scrotum to Moscow’s Red Square, is filing for Asylum in France. Pavlensky’s other stunts include wrapping his naked body in barbed wire, sewing his lips shut, setting the doors to Russia’s secret service on fire. Russian authorities say…
Jacob Bojesson Australian officials blame pro-refugee activists for initiating a recent trend of suicide and migrants setting themselves on fire. Two separate cases of refugees setting themselves on fire have been reported from Australia’s detention camps over the last week. An Iranian man died from his injuries, while a Somalian woman was left in critical condition….
by Jacob Bojesson Denmark passed a bill Tuesday to give authorities the right to seize cash, jewelry and other valuable items from arriving refugees in return for government social benefits while they await the outcome of their asylum applications. The bill passed after a landslide 81-27 vote and will go into effect next week. It…