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Female asylum seekers may encounter issues when seeking asylum in the United States due to what some see as a structural preference for male narrative forms in the requirements for acceptance. [90] Researchers, such as Amy Shuman and Carol Bohmer, argue that the asylum process produces gendered cultural silences, particular in hearings where ...
The program allows a combined total of 30,000 people per month from the four countries to enter the US. The program was implemented in 2022 to 2023 (Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua [1]) in response to high numbers of migrants and asylum seekers from these countries crossing into the US at the southwest border with Mexico. [2]
As of 2020, the backlog of asylum claims consists of more than 290,000 applicants. [34] During the 1970s and 1980s, United States asylum policy focused on Southeastern Asia due to the Vietnam War. The United States increased the number of European refugees in 1989 by accepting Soviet refugees and in 1999 by accepting Kosovar refugees.
President Biden unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political ...
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[70]: 395 This treatment was justified by some because of fears concerning the refugees' possible impacts on the American economy. [70]: 395 During the Cold War, the United States used refugee admissions policy largely as a propaganda tool in an attempt to discredit communism by granting asylum to those seeking to escape communist nations.
Critics had warned that the policy, abandoned after legal action, would put asylum seekers’ safety at risk. Plan to remove asylum seeker housing licensing requirements scrapped, court told Skip ...
The United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212) is an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U.S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions ...