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Australia’s Christmas Island detention center.
From time to time it’s useful to look at how other migration-destination countries deal with illegal immigration—if only so we can feel better about the United States. Case in point: human rights advocates have told Australia’s Parliament that the country has the harshest immigration detention system in the western world.
In a [...]
You might think that immigrants fleeing persecution in their home countries would face a fair system, but News 21’s Mira Jang found things to be radically different in a recent cover story for the Los Angeles CityBeat.
While some judges deny asylum in almost every case, others grant asylum even in the shakiest cases. From [...]
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