U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that it has paused the adjudication of (1) all pending asylum applications regardless of the applicant’s country of citizenship or ...

The Trump administration is stripping protections of some asylum applicants who filed as far back as 2019. NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters in the mail ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and others decried last week’s ICE arrest of a City Council staffer during a routine asylum interview with federal officials, but a review by Gothamist found ...

On Tuesday Dec. 2, 2025, USCIS released a policy memorandum titled “Hold and Review of all Pending Asylum Applications and all USCIS Benefit Applications Filed by Aliens from High-Risk Countries.” ...

The Trump administration is halting asylum decisions indefinitely, part of a broader immigration crackdown after an Afghan man allegedly shot two National Guard members. The Trump administration is ...