Marcia Kramer joined CBS News New York in 1990 as an investigative and political reporter. Prior to CBS2, she was the City Hall bureau chief at the New York Daily News. School safety agents make sure ...

Many individuals seeking asylum in the United States show increased stress and pain symptoms that are associated with indications of cardiovascular disease according to Weill Cornell Medicine ...

Delivering a painful defeat to the Trump administration's most sweeping effort to single-handedly overhaul the asylum system without Congress, a federal judge on Wednesday blocked a rule that made ...

NEW YORK-- New York City officials said Thursday that 3,800 new asylum seekers arrived last week, bringing the total to more than 150,000. With Mayor Eric Adams forced to order painful budget cuts, ...

A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday temporarily paused the government’s rollout of a new annual asylum application fee, citing confusion and inconsistent policies between federal agencies. Judge ...

They arrive at the U.S. border from around the world: Eritrea, Guatemala, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ghana, Uzbekistan and so many other countries. They come for asylum, insisting they face persecution ...

A federal judge ruled that the Biden administration in late December must end a public health policy that has prevented many immigrants from requesting asylum at the southwest border. The policy, ...

The number of people granted asylum in immigration courts hit a historic high this fiscal year under the Biden administration's adjustments to the asylum process, a recent data analysis shows. But ...

Asylum seekers who arrive at the United States southern border have fled their homes in search of safety, escaping conflict and violence. Seeking asylum is legal and a human right, long recognized in ...

THE ASYLUM and migration debate is emotive, divisive and highly politicised. The many critics of modern asylum systems claim they are failing. Some call for scrapping asylum altogether and jettisoning ...

Although our laws provide a clear right for people fleeing persecution to seek asylum in the United States, anti-immigration lawmakers have purposefully sown confusion about the law, the process of ...

The right to apply for asylum, a type of protection granted to migrants fleeing persecution or other harm in their home countries, has been a central component of U.S. immigration law for decades. But ...