NEW YORK — Immigration judges rejected a record-high number of asylum cases this year, refusing 65 percent of immigrants seeking the refugee status, according to a recent report published by Syracuse ...

Thousands of migrants traveling together to flee dire circumstances in their native Central American nations are camped in towns and cities edging the U.S.-Mexico border. Many hold out hopes that ...

The Trump administration’s policies limiting the daily intake of migrants at ports of entry have forced some asylum seekers to remain in danger in Mexico, in likely violation of U.S. and international ...

President Donald Trump has made asylum seekers headed to the United States a major political issue with his continued focus on the migrant caravan. Now, new data shows their likelihood of success ...

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The number of migrants requesting asylum at ports of entry along the southwest border doubled in fiscal year 2018 from the previous year, according to Customs and Border Protection data released on ...

Gilberto Flores had to leave. A teacher at his school in Jocoro, El Salvador, had just been dismembered by his own students after he was outed as a gay man. Gangs were dumping bodies in the streets ...

Miami’s Immigrant-Asylum Denials Hit 18-Year High in 2018, Data Shows In both sad and entirely predictable news, immigration-asylum applications in Miami were denied at rates virtually unseen in two ...

The threats from MS-13 had become incessant. There were handwritten letters, phone calls and text messages that all said the same thing: The gang was preparing to kill Ronald Acevedo. His family ...

Reporting from Atlanta — For an asylum seeker who presents himself at the U.S.-Mexico border, there may be no worse place in America to be sent than a jail in a rural pocket of the Deep South. Asylum ...