asylum seekers
- plural of asylum seeker.
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Dahlia and Mark sort through the brutalizing, even lethal implications for asylum seekers and more than 1 million recipients of temporary protected status, or TPS.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security said these asylum seekers must wait on the Mexican side of the border until they could return for a scheduled interview.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
Two former military sites - RAF Wethersfield in Essex, and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex - are already being used to house asylum seekers.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
For the past five years, both Tory and Labour governments have used a picturesque seafront hotel—the faded Metropole—to house hundreds of asylum seekers as they waited for their claims to be processed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
More than 90 percent of the school’s nine hundred students were black or from an ethnic minority; a fifth of them were the children of immigrants or asylum seekers.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
