asylum seeker
Homeland Security to reconsider locking up immigrants in private prisons
Eleven days after the DOJ said it would end the use of private prisons, DHS announced a plan to evaluate whether to "move in the same direction."
Why a 21-Year-Old Refugee Has Just Set Herself on Fire
A young Somali woman is the latest victim of the mental health crisis in Australia's offshore immigration detention centres. Immigration activists say that she isn't the only one.
Refugees Are Falling Ill After Foraging for Poisonous Mushrooms
German toxicologists say the 40 new cases of fungi poisoning, including one fatality, are due to recently arrived refugees mistaking the death cap mushroom for harmless varieties found back home.
Asylum Seekers Held by Australia Are Sewing Their Lips Together and Swallowing Razor Blades
The situation at Australia's Manus Island refugee center has deteriorated to the extent that desperate asylum seekers have resorted to radical self-harm to protest their detention.
'There's No Chance of Me Going Back': An Iranian Asylum Seeker Is Starving Himself to Death in Australia's Legal Limbo
The lawyer of an Iranian man, given the choice between returning to Iran and indefinite detention, told VICE News that his client is instead prepared to starve himself to death.
Revealed: The 'Hopelessness' Faced by Migrants to Australia and the Death of Reza Barati
A new Australian Senate Committee report outlines a failure to protect asylum seekers in remote detention facilities, and how that led to the death of 23-year-old Iranian, Reza Barati.