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Defense lawyers say they will seek French asylum for Assange

By OLEG CETINIC | February 20, 2020

PARIS (AP) — Julian Assange's European defense team said Thursday it will try to seek asylum in France for the Wikileaks founder, whose full hearings for extradition to the United States on spying charges start next week in London.French team member...

Ship captain arrested in probe of arms trafficking to Libya

By FRANCES D'EMILIO | February 19, 2020

ROME (AP) — Authorities in northern Italy arrested the captain of a Lebanese-flagged cargo ship on suspicion of international arms trafficking Wednesday while they investigate if the vessel transported tanks, rockets and other weapons from Turkey to...

US border clampdown forces Venezuelan teen into Mexico alone

By NOMAAN MERCHANT | February 18, 2020

HOUSTON (AP) — A Venezuelan teenager has been forced back to Mexico by U.S. government authorities who denied her claims that she was fleeing political repression and violence, even after they accepted the same claims from her father.The teenager, who...

Holding-cell stats raise questions about Trump asylum policy

By ELLIOT SPAGAT | February 13, 2020

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Many U.S. holding cells along the Mexican border were less than half-full, even empty, during an unprecedented surge of asylum-seeking families from Central America, newly unsealed court documents show, raising questions about the Trump...

Guatemalan family seeking asylum reunited after suing feds

By PHILIP MARCELO | February 7, 2020

BOSTON (AP) — A Guatemalan family seeking asylum has been reunited in Massachusetts after challenging their separation under the Trump administration's controversial “Remain in Mexico” asylum process.The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts...

Report: At least 138 sent from US to El Salvador were killed

By BEN FOX | February 5, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 138 people deported to El Salvador from the United States in recent years were subsequently killed, Human Rights Watch says in a report that comes as the Trump administration makes it harder for Central Americans to seek refuge...

AP Exclusive: Border apprehensions drop 8 straight months

By COLLEEN LONG and BEN FOX | February 3, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of border apprehensions has dropped for the eighth straight month, following crackdowns by the Trump administration that include forcing asylum seekers back over the U.S.-Mexico border to wait out their claims, a Homeland...

US finds ally in Mexico as asylum policy marks first year

By ELLIOT SPAGAT | January 30, 2020

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The Perla family of El Salvador has slipped into a daily rhythm in Mexico while they wait for the U.S. to decide whether to grant them asylum.A modest home has replaced the tent they lived in at a migrant shelter. Their 7- and...

Minnesota priest apologizes for calling Muslims a ‘threat’

January 29, 2020

LONSDALE, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota Roman Catholic priest apologized Wednesday for saying in a sermon that Islam was “the greatest threat in the world” to the United States and Christianity.The Rev. Nick VanDenBroeke apologized in a statement issued...

US now forcing asylum seekers from Brazil to wait in Mexico

January 29, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Migrants from Brazil who seek U.S. asylum at the southern border will now have to wait in Mexico to learn their fate along with tens of thousands of others turned back under a year-old Trump administration policy.The Department of...