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Biden and Trudeau walk together wearing dark suits and flanked by a line of U.S. and Canadian flags.

Europe Can Show the United States and Canada How to Share Responsibility for Asylum Seekers

Responsibility sharing arrangements should pull together resources and hosting commitments from multiples stakeholders.

Apr. 24, 2023 Elena Chachko and Katerina Linos

Afghan refugee women embrace at the old Vathy camp, as one is waiting to be transferred to the new Samos RIC, the first of five new 'closed' migrant camps, on the island of Samos, Greece, on September 20, 2021.

Living in Limbo: The Impact of Greece’s Safe Third Country Policy on Afghan Asylum Seekers

Designating Turkey as a safe third country is Greece's latest attempt to shift its obligations under international and European law.

Nov. 10, 2021 Kristie Bluett

Trump and Chad Wolf speak to members of border control on August 18, 2020. Neither wear face masks.

Whistleblower: DHS Suppressed Reports on Central America and Inflated Risk of Terrorist Border-Crossers

Brian Murphy’s Whistleblower complaint confirms: White House officials and political appointees in federal agencies hid carefully investigated and proven facts and substituted…

Sep. 16, 2020 Susan Gzesh

Central American migrants -mostly Hondurans- are blocked by Mexican police forces in full riot gear as they reach the El Chaparral border crossing, in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, on November 25, 2018.

The “Virtual Wall”: Mexico, Part 1

The Trump administration has established its wall on the U.S.- Mexico border without putting one brick in place.

Feb. 4, 2020 Susan Gzesh

Germany's deputy permanent representative to the UN Jürgen Schulz, France's permanent representative to the UN, Nicolas de Rivière, Britain's permanent representative to the UN, Karen Pierce, Poland's permanent representative to the UN, Joanna Wronecka, and Belgium's permanent representative to the UN, Marc Pecsteen speak to the press at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on November 20, 2019 about the security situation in Israel prior to a Security Council meeting on the "situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question."

National Security at the United Nations This Week

Security Council members condemn US policy shift on Israeli settlements, a Russia-sponsored cyber agreement that could pave the way for more Internet censorship moves forward,…

Nov. 22, 2019 Sahrula Kubie

View of a Guatemalan migrant's identification wristband upon his arrival at the Air Force Base in Guatemala City after being deported from the United States on July 31, 2019.

“Offshore Processing” in Guatemala: A Deeper Look at the U.S. Asylum Deal

U.S. agreement to "offshore" asylum seekers (of different nationalities) to Guatemala bears striking similarity to Australia's policy of offshoring asylum seekers to an island…

Aug. 23, 2019 Regina Jefferies

Acting U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan and Interior Minister of Guatemala Enrique Degenhart signe a “safe third country” agreement as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on in the Oval Office of the White House July 26, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Questions Surround Secretive US-Guatemala Agreement

The agreement signed between the U.S. and Guatemala looks more like an attempt to make Guatemala an American Nauru – a terrible jail for thousands who would seek asylum in the…

Jul. 30, 2019 Susan Gzesh

Blocking or Aiding Asylum Seekers? The U.S.-Canada “Safe Third Country” Agreement and Examples from Europe

The Trump administration's new asylum regulation attempts an end run around the statutory requirements of an actual “Safe Third Country” agreement. Here's how such an agreement…

Jul. 16, 2019 Susan Gzesh