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Topic: Asylum

A poster of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos accompanies ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) as he delivers an opening statement during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol Building on March 04, 2026. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Judge denies Ramos family's asylum claim

Garrett Owen
The Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee protests outside ICE's regional headquarters in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on July 14, 2025. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

ICE takes a former hospital chaplain

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Protestors carry a sign in support of Andry José Hernández Romero during the 2025 San Francisco Pride Parade on June 29, 2025 in San Francisco, California. (Arun Nevader/Getty Images)

Man "disappeared" by Trump could be dead

Charles R. Davis
U.S. President Joe Biden (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden's plan jeopardizes Black migrants

Kica Matos, Nana Gyamfi
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A Honduran mother carries her son, 4, across the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a group of at least 25 asylum seekers who where were allowed to travel from a migrant camp in Mexico into the United States on February 25, 2021 in Matamoros, Mexico (John Moore/Getty Images)

Why is Biden blocking asylum seekers?

Rachel Gore Freed, Joshua Leach
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, left, and a border patrol agent on horseback menacing a Haitian migrant. (Salon illustration via Fox News/Getty Images)

Abbott endorses border horsemen tactics

Brett Bachman
President Joe Biden (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Jessica Corbett
Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who claimed her team tried to force her to leave Japan following a row during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, walks with her luggage inside the Polish embassy in Tokyo on August 2, 2021. (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

Olympic athlete seeks asylum from govt

Kylie Cheung
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US Attorney General Merrick Garland (Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty Images)

DOJ reversal of Trump policy is cheered

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Amir El-Masry, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah and Vikash Bhai in "Limbo" (Focus Features)

The offbeat life of refugees in "Limbo"

Gary M. Kramer
A Guatemalan boy looks over his mother's shoulder while waiting in line for food at the Casa del Refugiado, or The House of Refugee, a new centre opened by the Annunciation House to help the large flow of migrants being released by the United States Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso, Texas on April 24, 2019. (Getty/Paul Ratje)

Republicans exploit migrants, win media

Heather Digby Parton
Fruit basketed in a medical mask on the ground by the border wall (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

Sick with COVID-19 in ICE detention

Raul Luna Gonzalez, Gabriel Thompson
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US President Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border fence in Otay Mesa, California on September 18, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump proposes changes to asylum rules

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Immigration Detention Center (J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images)

Calls for Trump to release detainees

Julián Aguilar - The Texas Tribune
FILE - This April 5, 2016 file photo shows a masked, armed police officer patrolling a gang controlled neighborhood in San Salvador, El Salvador. Government statistics show a sharp drop in homicides so far in 2017 after the gang-plagued country posted some of the world's highest murder rates in recent years, according to National police Commissioner Howard Cotto on March 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Peña, File) (AP)

Deported to death

Mneesha Gellman - The Conversation
Men walk near the US-Mexico border fence as seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on January 17, 2019. (Getty/Guillermo Arias)

Supreme Court and refugees at the border

Karla Mari McKanders - The Conversation
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Stephen Miller, senior adviser to the president and architect of immigration policy (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

New immigration crackdown fails

Sophia Tesfaye
Supreme Court (Getty Images/ Salon)

New asylum restrictions to move forward

Matthew Rozsa
(Bryan Cox/ICE via AP)

Did government rely on false "evidence"?

Melissa del Bosque - ProPublica
Stephen Miller; Donald Trump; Jared Kushner (AP/Andrew Harnik/Getty/Saul Loeb)

Trump's cruel new immigration crackdown

Sophia Tesfaye
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President Donald Trump speaks about the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Asylum restrictions: Trump cannot change

Jean Lantz Reisz - The Conversation
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC), begins a markup over immigration policy on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhit)

Graham committee descends into chaos

Igor Derysh
In this Oct. 23, 2018 image, people seeking asylum in the United States line up to receive a number at the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The first obstacle that migrants in a giant caravan may face if they reach the U.S. border is a long wait in Mexico. To enter through San Diego, the wait in Mexico is a month or longer. (AP/Gregory Bull)

Trump rule disqualifies asylum seekers

Dara Lind - ProPublica
Stephen Miller, senior adviser to the president and architect of immigration policy (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Stephen Miller wants zero refugees

Igor Derysh
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