U.S. top destination for asylum-seekers
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The United States has overtaken France as the country with the highest number of asylum applications, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
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OTTAWA -- In a dramatic breach of security, 44 asylum-seekers scaled home-made ladders and leaped over a spiked fence at Canada&#39;s embassy in Beijing yesterday.
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By Steve Cahalan, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Sep. 8--A state official Thursday honored Ashley Furniture of Arcadia, Wis., as the area's top refugee employer, and praised the efforts of many people and organizations to ensure successful resettlement of Hmong immigrants in the region.
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico  - At a Catholic-run shelter just across the border from Laredo, Texas, dozens of Latin American migrants say grace and tuck into a hearty meal of sausages, beans and rice, before trying to swim across the Rio Grande into the United States.
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The sweeping immigration bills in Congress would add many thousands of beds to the patchwork network of detention facilities that hold illegal immigrants and asylum-seekers &amp;#151; places that critics say are over-costly and under-regulated.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 7 -- For years, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area has been known for its liberalism and tolerance, especially when it comes to religion. Many Muslims, including the largest population of Somalis outside of Mogadishu, make their home in the Twin Cities. The area just elected the nation's first Muslim congressman, Keith Ellison (D)....
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An American family with three small children has applied for political asylum in Finland, immigration officials said Friday.
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Nearly 10,000 people from countries designated as sponsors of terrorism have entered the United States under an immigration diversity program with relatively few restrictions, a report released on Friday said.
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The outcome of asylum cases can be influenced by things like the location of the court and the sex and professional background of judges, a study has found.
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The number of refugees worldwide increased by nearly 2 million last year, driving the total to nearly 14 million, the highest level since 2001, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants reported Wednesday.
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Mohammed, an illegal Iraqi refugee, counts himself lucky. He has managed to find a carpentry job in Lebanon. And even better, his workplace is near his home Â meaning he doesn't have to drive to work and risk arrest at one of Beirut's security checkpoints.
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It could be Miami or New York, Sydney, Toronto, Madrid or even Kuwait. Almost any destination is acceptable to a growing number of Venezuelans who want to emigrate because they see little future for themselves ...
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Immigration aid workers here expect that as many as half of the nearly 7,000 Iraqi refugees who will be brought into the United States by the end of September will settle in the area.
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The United States has granted refuge to the wife a drug trafficking suspect wanted in the United States and whose paramilitary group is considered a terrorist organization, a senior U.S. envoy has confirmed.
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Millions of Iraqi refugees fleeing violence and sectarian cleansing after the U.S.-led invasion four years ago are finding it nearly impossible to get safe harbor in America, including those who risked their lives helping President George W. Bush's war effort.
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The Bush administration hopes to resettle about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to the United States this year, the State Department said Wednesday. "We have a responsibility to respond to the immediate needs of Iraqis who have fled violence and persecution," said U.S. Undersecretary Paula Dobriansky. The U.N. high commissioner for refugees estimates up to 2 million Iraqis have fled since the war began.
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Neutral Switzerland, home to humanitarian   agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross,   voted by a big majority on Sunday to make it harder for   asylum-seekers to gain entry to the rich Alpine state.