In today's geopolitical climate, the rate of incoming asylum-seekers and refugees doesn't show any signs of slowing.
The reason it's difficult to establish just how many refugees are being hosted by countries in the GCC is because they do not officially recognize incoming asylum-seekers as refugees.
Some specific issues mentioned were lack of notification about incoming dispersed asylum seekers, departure from agreed language clusters, inconsistent standards of NASS accommodation providers, high mobility of asylum seekers within the dispersal system, and problematic bureaucracy intended to support asylum seekers.
Indonesia has voiced concern over the policy and rights groups have criticised both the previous and incoming governments' policies on asylum.
The White House is reportedly close to clinching a deal with Mexico's incoming government to send asylum-seekers back across the southern U.S. border while their cases wind through America's beleaguered immigration courts.
Last Saturday, the Washington Post reported that the Trump Administration had "won the support of Mexico's incoming government" for a plan to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts.
The senator tried to school the incoming congresswoman after she pointed out the history of asylum seekers in the U.S. Sarahi, 8, is from Honduras and traveling with her family.
In addition, the current focus of the UK Port of Arrival Scheme on tuberculosis screening among new asylum seekers misses the increasing numbers of incoming migrants from resource-poor countries entering to work and study, who may also be at increased risk [ 1].
Cubans who arrive at the United States will still be eligible for political asylum like all others, and we urge the incoming Trump administration to treat those claims with the generosity they deserve.
