Even the people who drew up the United Nations refugee convention did not intend for it to apply to mass migration.

U.S. President Donald Trump has once again mixed up the words insane asylum and political asylum. It comes as Trump caught out as he's overheard making outrageous brag to his friends. While ...

Imam Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at Cincinnati Children's hospital, was detained by ICE after his asylum status was ...

Donald Trump once again claimed this week that migrants coming to the U.S. are coming from “prisons” and “insane asylums,” but Seth Meyers thinks he’s figured out why Trump believes the ...

Imam Ayman Soliman was granted asylum status after he arrived in the U.S. from Egypt over a decade ago, the advocacy group ...

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Immigration. Asylum Isn't As Crazy as Trump Claims The president-elect can't tell political asylum from an insane asylum. But a little linguistic history reveals a more compelling American tradition.

Frederick Mattox, 26 years of age, and George Conway, aged 34, inmates of the insane asylum at Ward's Island, escaped at an early hour Friday morning. Both were in a convalescent state, ...