Panama accepted asylum-seekers the US didn’t want. Then its troubles began.
Mellona Takie can barely make it through a game of Uno these days, though on a recent afternoon she tries. Anything to keep her mind from going to a place so dark that she tried to take her own life in February, after the United States deported her, an East African, to Panama.
“Even if I see something good, in my eyes, it’s bad,” says the woman in her late 20s, who fled mandatory military service in Eritrea, under a totalitarian government, and planned to seek political asylum in the U.S.
New images could change cancer diagnostics but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months — putting crucial scientific advancements at risk. The scientist, the 30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Pertova, worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab until her arrest at a Boston airport in mid-February.
Gay Venezuelan Makeup Artist Among Hundreds Deported Without Due Process
A 23-year-old makeup artist with no known gang affiliation was among the hundreds of Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison without due process last week.
Lindsay Toczylowski, co-founder and president of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, painted a harrowing picture while recounting how her client was “disappeared” during an appearance on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Thursday.
What To Know About Andry: 31-Year-Old Makeup Artist Falsely Deported To El Salvador Prison, Lawyer Says
Immigration attorneys say a gay Venezuelan makeup artist seeking asylum in the U.S. was wrongly identified as a gang member and deported to El Salvador—a case becoming a flashpoint in the debate over the Trump administration’s deportation of hundreds of migrants to a notoriously inhumane El Salvador megaprison.
Make-up artist 'mistakenly sent to hellish El Salvador prison with bloodthirsty gangsters'
A makeup artist seeking asylum in the US after fleeing Venezuela claims he was wrongly identified as a gang member and sent to a hellhole prison in El Salvador.
Andrys Cedeno-Gil, 31, crossed the border into California from Tijuana last year to escape persecution for his homosexuality, his lawyers said.
He waited months in detention for an immigration court hearing on March 13, but instead was put one of three planes with 237 other migrants and deported.
Trump shuts off access to asylum, plans to send 10,000 troops to border
President Donald Trump is preparing to send around 10,000 troops to the southern border, where they will support Border Patrol agents under new orders to shut off access to asylum, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection briefing document obtained by The Washington Post.
Austria Revises Syrian Asylum Policies Following Assad’s Downfall: A Shift in Refugee Policy
Following the anti-government rebels’ rapid advance that made President Bashar al-Assad depart from Syria, Austria has enacted significant changes to its asylum policies concerning Syrian nationals. Visegrád24 posted that Austria’s caretaker government is planning to halt the processing of current Syrian asylum applications and to reassess previously granted asylum statuses. Additionally, family reunification programmes for Syrian refugees have been suspended.
Scared to stay in Mexico, afraid of Trump's policies, some migrants look to return home
Every day, Nidia Montenegro spends hours checking her cellphone, hoping to receive a long-awaited appointment with U.S. border officials to seek asylum in the United States.
The 52-year-old Venezuelan migrant in Mexico says she fears her appointment will not come before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, when he has vowed to scrap a slew of programs that have allowed migrants to enter the U.S. legally - including the government app that Montenegro is using to try and get her appointment.
Hungary signals it’s serious about sending buses of asylum seekers to EU headquarters
Hungary’s anti-immigrant government signaled Friday that it is serious about implementing a plan to provide asylum seekers free one-way travel to Brussels, a measure meant to pressure the European Union into relenting on heavy fines against the country for its restrictive asylum policies.
At a news conference in the capital Budapest, State Secretary Bence Rétvári claimed the EU wanted to force Hungary to allow “illegal migrants” across its borders, and said the country would “offer these illegal migrants, voluntarily, free of charge, one-way travel to Brussels.”
Did the Biden administration approve three million work permits for asylum seekers?
More than 12 million work permits have been granted under President Joe Biden’s administration, with just a little more than 2.5 million work permits issued to asylum seekers, who are lawfully applying to immigrate. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on Nevada Independent.