A former speaker of the U.S. House and the British prime minister have struggled to corral the extreme right factions of their parties.
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Migrant Children Are a Crisis for the U.S. Coast Guard
When detained by the U.S. Coast Guard at sea, even children fleeing violence have no right to asylum — and often face an uncertain fate.
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Democrats Clash Over Move to Add Asylum Changes to War Funding Bill
Democrats and the White House have agreed in principle to raise the threshold for asylum claims as part of the bill to fund wars in Israel and Ukraine, but liberals are livid — and Republicans want more.
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They Fled Climate Chaos. Asylum Rules Made for War Might Not Help.
“We need protection,” one migrant at the U.S. border said. But the legal system for refugees never envisioned the millions displaced by global warming.
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What Today’s Migrant Crisis Looks Like to a Holocaust Refugee
A firsthand account of arriving to New York City as one of the 140,000 Jewish refugees who fled postwar Europe.