“What is asylum? ‘In layman's terms, it's basically when people flee to the United States for human rights violations and they seek sanctuary here and they ask for that sanctuary from our immigration system. If they are granted asylum, they are allowed to stay in the U.S. indefinitely and eventually get their green card and apply for U.S. citizenship,’ explains... Lisa Laurel Weinberg, [an attorney] at the Community Legal Services and Counseling Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
"Attorneys there say that in recent years, asylum seekers have been required to provide more proof of the risks they face back home in order to win their case."
"According to the U.S. government, asylum is a form of protection granted to individuals who have been persecuted or fear they will be persecuted on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
(From the website of Voice of America journalist, Nico Colombant, who made a video of the asylum work done by CLSACC. Please click the link below to view the website and video.
