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Annual Refugee Admissions to the United States by Fiscal Year, 1975 to August 2019 Annual Asylum Grants in the United States by Fiscal Year, 1990-2016. The United States recognizes the right of asylum for individuals seeking protections from persecution, as specified by international and federal law.
The right of asylum, sometimes called right of political asylum (asylum from Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon) 'sanctuary'), [1] [2] is a juridical concept, under which people persecuted by their own rulers might be protected by another sovereign authority, such as a second country or another entity which in medieval times could offer sanctuary.
The term "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" is mentioned in a number of statutes of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), [2] which was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1952 and amended a number of times over the past sixty years.
These men, women and children make up just some of the over one million migrants and refugees who have sought asylum in Europe this past year. Here, we follow the story of a young Eritrean woman who crossed mountains, oceans and deserts to escape the small, secretive East African nation.
"(The doctor) told me, 'Your cancer is in stage 3. You cannot play with this,'" said one woman who was allowed to enter. "'You have to get help now."
Prior to the 1951 convention, the League of Nations' Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, of 28 October 1933, dealt with administrative measures such as the issuance of Nansen certificates, refoulement, legal questions, labour conditions, industrial accidents, welfare and relief, education, fiscal regime and exemption from reciprocity, and provided for the creation of ...
The majority of these migrants have presented themselves as asylum seekers fleeing political violence from left-wing paramilitaries who are still highly active in parts of Colombia where the ...
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