Russian ballet dancers, Cuban baseball players and Chinese political dissidents. These are the kind of people fleeing persecution in their homelands who typically won asylum in the United States over ...

The overwhelming majority of people who made their way to the United States on the so-called “refugee caravan” passed a crucial test which helps determine whether they have a credible case for asylum, ...

President Donald Trump lashed out on Monday at a group of Central American asylum seekers traveling to the United States, calling their caravan “a disgrace” and claiming he’d instructed the Department ...

As I see the daily news images of people from Central America, young and old, carrying bags of their worldly goods and pushing baby strollers, I wonder: What kinds of deprivation propel a person to ...

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he is sending more federal attorneys and judges to the border region as migrants from Central America seek political asylum in the United States. "We are not ...

Some 400 central Americans who broke away from the main caravan of migrants and refugees in Mexico City arrived in the border city of Tijuana by bus Tuesday. As members of the caravan arrived planning ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has mobilized staff and resources to southern Mexico since Thursday, following the arrival at the Mexico/Guatemala border of thousands of people as part of a ‘caravan’ of ...

Route of KOSD caravan protesting Myanmar military coup and mistreatment of people. Click image for PDF or route details. A group deeply worried about the military coup in Myanmar (formerly Burma) is ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Migrants hitch rides on passing truck as they continue on their journey after Mexican police briefly blockaded the road to keep ...

With winter fast approaching and thousands of Syrian refugees still living in tents at Zaatari, the huge refugee camp in northern Jordan, the most momentous new arrivals are the big, white boxes that ...