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refugee
(redirected from Asylum-seekers)

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See: alien


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based aid and development group Church World Service, more than 20,000 non-criminals who are asylum-seekers are in detention.
David Dreier, R-Glendora, attached the provision - which also makes it easier to deport asylum-seekers and speeds up completion of the barrier between the United States and Mexico near San Diego - to the spending bill passed by the House on Wednesday.
In Britain, this new approach is called "managed migration," and it is causing a firestorm of controversy, leading to hunger strikes by asylum-seekers and the growth of the far-right British National Party.
 
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