Asylum Quotations

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care.

Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor.

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.

The REAL ID Act would, among other things, permit immigration judges to deny asylum based solely on an applicant's demeanor, ... As health professionals who also do asylum evaluations, we fear that this is likely to lead immigration judges (who are not adequately trained in the symptoms of torture survivors) to deny asylum to those who need it most.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum

If this child had come ashore in Mississippi, he would have had his asylum hearing by now.

I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.

I don't understand when there's excess capacity at mainland detention centers, why there's a need to take these asylum seekers as far away as possible from the best legal teams.

He says he has lived for a long time in the USA, but does not want to say where. He has worked in Europe, but does not want say where and with what. He is not seeking asylum in Sweden but wants to go to New York.

The overwhelming weight of federal appellate decisions around this country would have given Elian Gonzalez an absolute constitutional right to an asylum hearing five months ago.

'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.

When I first heard about it, I was interested. But the tickets are a little pricey, and there's an Asylum show the night before, so I may be spending Sunday night catching up on some sleep.

Unfortunately this failure was a direct consequence of the government's chaotic asylum policy and its porous borders.

We are concerned that the drive to keep the number of asylum seekers as low as possible may be resulting in some genuine refugees being denied the protection they need.

We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.

We would certainly hope that these governments would receive fleeing asylum seekers,

There is also a concern about the increasing and more restrictive asylum policies across Europe. This has also, we fear, led to a lack of access to proper procedures for people seeking asylum.

This officer was killed by someone who should have been deported when his asylum application failed,

The world as seen through the window of an insane asylum is the same world as seen from the window of a dentist's office.

These reports are deeply worrying. Asylum seekers are being treated as packages to be processed and removed rather than as very vulnerable human beings.

Schumann died in an asylum at age 46, and from that day on his wife Clara, an outstanding pianist and mother of his eight children, dressed in black from head to toe.

ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated with more heat than light by the outmates of every asylum for the insane. They have had to concede a few things since the time of Chaucer, but are none the less hot in defence of those to be conceded hereafter.A spelling reformer indicted For fudge was before the court cicted. The judge said: ""Enough -- His candle we'll snough, And his sepulchre shall not be whicted.

This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution to countries where they are persecuted. Are we living up to this commitment?

Forced recruitment of refugees, especially of minors, who came to Chad to seek asylum is totally unacceptable.

It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decision, it's highly unlikely the asylum seeker can reverse it.

They were seeking political asylum and trying to avoid persecution in their country. They said they were Christians.

The international community should insist on a full account of what happened and how these asylum seekers and others ended up in Uzbek custody.

The family in Miami thinks the issue is that (under) the asylum laws in this country, any alien, regardless of age, has the right to apply for asylum and the INS has the obligation to adjudicate the case.

In cases where people are requesting asylum based on politics or a particular social group, he's very strict. Is someone fleeing forced abortion more deserving of protection than someone fleeing political persecution?

An earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern speed, Now asked asylum and I was stirred To be the one so dog-preferred

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).