Points system to deter unpatriotic immigrants

"The government will tomorrow launch proposals for a new points system for immigrants seeking British citizenship, as it tries to deflect accusations that it has lost control of the country's borders."Well this is nothing if not controversial. New measures are being proposed...

Battered women find safety in the US

"After more than a decade of legal wrangling over what the official stance should be on foreign women seeking US protection from domestic abuse, the White House has opened the way for battered females to receive asylum. The administration recently submitted a cautiously...

A broken family

The answering machine says, “Thank you for calling Brian, Janina, and Tony Wasilewski.” But for nearly two years, Tony has lived alone in his house in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, separated by more than 4,000 miles from his wife and son.   On June 8, 2007,...

Mexican drug wars force police to claim asylum in US

"That made him part of an unprecedented new trend: Mexican police officers claiming safe haven across the border in America, because they claim their own colleagues cannot protect them - or might even be trying to kill them."Britain's Telegraph reports on the newest trend...

An Iraqi's odyssey into the French asylum system

BY ELISA MIGNOT [This story appeared originally on Immigration Here & There, a project of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, done in conjunction with the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)] "We were living in a truck when the...