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A lawsuit from a Black musician who was attacked in Boston targets dozens of members, including its leader

The end of a Trump-era public health order brings new barriers for people seeking asylum in the US

Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally posted the names, birth dates, nationalities and locations of more than 6,000 immigrants who claimed to be fleeing torture and persecution to its website this week.

SAN DIEGO — Days before he was scheduled to go to the San Ysidro Port of Entry with his family to request asylum, a 7-year-old boy died in Tijuana.

Nearly half of asylum-seekers returned to Mexico under the “Remain in Mexico” program to await a U.S. immigration court hearing said they’d been abused by local officials, according to a Human Rights First report released Thursday.

Public health experts say Title 42 is counterproductive, forcing people into unsafe and unsanitary conditions

TIJUANA, Mexico — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration can end the "Remain in Mexico" program, but life does not appear likely to change much for asylum seekers waiting in Tijuana for their U.S. immigration court cases — at least for the near future.

Doctors, teachers, engineers and other Afghans who were forced to associate with the Taliban will now have a chance at asylum or visas after the Biden administration loosened a terrorism-related designation on Tuesday, according to government officials and documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

Human Rights First says asylum seekers were jailed on average for 3.7 months after being allowed into the United States.