Sentence examples for deserved asylum from inspiring English sources

The two sides had agreed to work together to determine who deserved asylum.

It did not say that refugees from countries which outlaw homosexuality automatically deserve asylum.

But rights groups insist that they are political refugees who deserve asylum, since they are often interrogated and arrested once they are back in North Korea.

By this evening, after United Nations officials here had interviewed the group, a spokesman for the high commissioner in Geneva, Ron Redmond, said, "We believe that these people deserve asylum".

As recently as Saturday, Chinese officials reiterated the government's longstanding contention that North Koreans in China are economic migrants rather than political refugees, and therefore do not deserve asylum.

This dispute reveals a question that underlies the whole asylum-review process: How does one differentiate, cleanly, between those who deserve asylum and those who don't?

Resolving the situation of deserving asylum applicants will strengthen the powerful message that our government stands with victims of persecution and that we are a safe haven for those who cannot find justice in their own countries.

Those interviews are traditionally used to establish whether an immigrant should have a chance to argue their case in front of a judge, and don't require immigrants to conclusively and legally prove that they deserve asylum.

They point to Trump's call for a moratorium on allowing Muslims into the country, and the Republican candidates' opposition to admitting refugees from Syria's civil war out of concern that the vetting process cannot distinguish between those deserving asylum and those with ties to extremist groups.

The athlete, Andy Morales, a big-hitting third baseman on Cuba's national team, was returned home by Coast Guard authorities after he failed to convince American immigration agents that he deserved political asylum, administration officials said.

Updated at 3.19pm BST 2.53pm BST In the US, senator Robert Menendez, chair of the Senate foreign relations committee, has said Snowden is a "fugitive who belongs in a United States courtroom" and said the episode damaged US-Russian relations: Edward Snowden is a fugitive who belongs in a United States courtroom, not a free man deserving of asylum in Russia.