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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reversing the closed-door “administrative closure” amnesty for 350,000 migrants which was quietly created by officials working for former President Barack Obama.

“Turn the plane around!” Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia reportedly commanded Justice Department lawyers at an immigration appeal hearing in his Washington, DC, courtroom Thursday.

The ACLU is suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions because his asylum reforms are causing a “dramatic” drop in the number of economic migrants who pass the initial credible-fear test needed to win asylum and get jobs in the United States. 

South Korea’s presidential Blue House is finally responding to the petition filed in June after several hundred refugees from Yemen arrived on tiny Jeju Island. The government promised to tighten up asylum screening in response to public complaints.

It has happened again.  For some reason, when it comes to immigration, congressional Republicans routinely lose their ability to reason coherently and fall all over themselves to demonstrate how “compassionate” they can be.

President Trump says he will “shut down” the federal government if the Republicans and Democrats in Congress do not deliver border wall funding and an end to the Catch and Release loophole system in their latest funding bill.

The number of Central Americans migrants who have left their children in the United States has risen to at least 142 and may reach several hundred, according to a July 23 agency statement to a district court judge in California.

A growing percentage of migrants are being turned away at the border because of the new asylum policy set by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, say immigration lawyers. 

Migrants and their children should not be deported until the ACLU has a chance to help them get asylum in the United States, according to a California judge who has taken temporary control of the President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance family-migration policy. 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new reform of the “credible fear” asylum process is despicable, criminal, abusive, extremist, inhumane and unlawful, say pro-migration advocates. 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has directed border officers to reject migrants’ asylum requests at the initial “credible fear” stage whenever migrants claim to fear non-political gang crime or spousal abuse, according to a CNN report. The asylum reform comes as tens of thousands

Dishonest and inept lawyers are undermining the UK’s justice system, with the immigration and asylum appeal system blighted by “widely reported deficiencies and a culture of non-compliance with the rules”, the authors of a new report said.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is drafting a regulation that will narrow the asylum rules and likely deter many migrants from seeking asylum in the United States, according to Vox.com. 

The South Korean resort island of Jeju provides a fascinating case study in refugee politics as the small island wrestles with an unexpected surge of refugees from Yemen’s civil war.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders sparred with reporters on the issue of immigration during a late-announced press briefing Monday afternoon, during which she rebuked one reporter’s repeated push about immigration policies.

Almost five in nine likely American voters say the United States should not become a migrant camp for the world’s poor, a new poll found.

Voters should insist that Congress provide taxpayer-funded lawyers to all foreign children who arrive at the border without parents, says the New York Times’ editorial board.

The United Nations (UN) has demanded Brussels reform asylum rules, declaring that distributing asylum seekers equally throughout the bloc is “the only way” Europe can house every third world migrant who wants to make the continent their home.

Pro-migration advocates turned their outrage meter up to max after Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed President Barack Obama’s rules allowing Central Americans to get asylum if they say they are threatened by domestic violence or by gang violence.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions exercised his authority Monday as the ultimate reviewer of the immigration court system to overrule a series of Obama era decisions that were allowing the radical expansion of the American asylum system.

The scandal involving alleged bribes for asylum decisions at the Bremen branch of the German federal office for migration and refugees (BAMF) may be even more widespread as a senior member of the agency has claimed the conditions in Bremen were not an isolated case.

Congress’ border loopholes for asylum seekers have delivered more than 400,000 migrants into Americans’ workplaces, reducing free-market pressure on employers and investors to raise wages for blue-collar Americans.

The ACLU and NPR are spinning stories from President Barack Obama’s 2014 migrant crisis into new smears against President Donald Trump’s pro-American 2018 policies.

BERLIN, Germany: Populist Alternative for Germany MP Petr Bystron has announced he wants to try and help Tommy Robinson claim asylum in Germany and spoke exclusively to Breitbart London on the political oppression of opponents of the establishment.

Federal officials are closing a little-known loophole in immigration law which allows millions of foreigners to dodge penalties for overstaying their student, business or work visas. 

The caravan of migrants from Central America seeking entry into the United States has illustrated many problems in our immigration system.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen begged foreign asylum-seekers to “please come to the ports of entry” on the U.S.-Mexico border during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.

The Department of Justice is sending 35 more prosecutors and 18 immigration judges to quickly process illegal immigrants and asylum claims at the border, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday.

Migrants associated with a “Central American Caravan” showed up at the U.S. border Sunday reportedly seeking asylum from gang violence, but many decided to “tie the knot” upon hearing news from their legal counsel that they face separation.

U.S. Border Patrol reported Saturday that it had apprehended several individuals “associated with the Central American Caravan” who were trying to cross illegally into the country.

The migrant ‘caravan’ is scheduled to make their border-wall requests for asylum starting on Sunday, setting up a test between the pro-migration groups and President Donald Trump’s pro-Americans policies. 

Chinese police held a press conference on Monday in which they claimed twin brothers Chen Zhiyu and Chen Zhiheng forged documents at the behest of dissident billionaire Guo Wengui and leaked them to the Washington Free Beacon, leading to the publication of two stories embarrassing to the Chinese government. Chinese authorities admitted to using “coercive measures against the Chen brothers,” as the state-run Xinhua news service puts it, to obtain elaborate forced confessions.

Around half a million migrants were granted asylum in the European Union (EU) last year, the bloc’s statistics office said Thursday, with Germany taking 60 per cent – more than all other member states combined.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ immigration courts has returned deportation orders back up to the level set before former President Barack Obama’s pro-migration policies.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says he “fully” supports President Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to aid Border Patrol agents in stemming an overwhelming flow of illegal aliens to the country.

A Queens, New York immigration lawyer was charged with fraud in federal court Wednesday, accused of knowingly submitting false documentation for more than 180 of her asylum-seeking clients.