asylum

Joe Biden loves to talk about compromise, so why no Senate border deal?

President Joe Biden loves to praise himself as a compromiser. He has a real opportunity to try and broker a deal in the Senate to get Ukraine aid money in...

NYC migrant student becomes chess prodigy after just one year of playing

An 11-year-old migrant is living her American dream, becoming a chess queen on her way to attaining master status despite learning the game just this year.

Bipartisan City Council duo call for more transparency on migrant spending

Councilmembers Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) and Bob Holden (D-Queens), who are both members of the Common Sense Caucus, are expected to introduce a bill Wednesday that would legally require the City...

Well-dressed Chinese migrants look like tourists on California border, as lawyer says asylum-seekers are 'at least middle class'

A line of well-dressed Chinese migrants with suitcases who have illegally crossed into the US show how the type of people seeking asylum is changing.

Mayor Adams once again heading to DC for meetings on worsening migrant crisis —after last trip cut short by FBI raid

Mayor Adams' previous trip to DC was cut short by an FBI raid on his fundraiser's home.

Desperate migrants in NYC say they would eagerly stay at the controversial shelter: 'I'll take whatever I can get'

Desperate asylum seekers who are waiting days to get back into NYC's overwhelmed shelter system would happily make the trek out to the mega tent migrant site in Brooklyn despite...

NYC paying $625K to bus migrant kids from mega tent shelter

The added costs to the mega tent shelter came to light Wednesday as the Adams administration's 60-day cap for migrant families starts to go into effect.

Texas Gov. Abbott vows more migrants to NYC and other cities until Biden 'secures the border'

More than one-third of migrants bused out of Texas – 25,000 – were routed to New York City under a state border security and burden-sharing effort launched by the Republican...

Joe Biden must cut a deal with GOP and get vital aid to Ukraine NOW

If President Joe Biden wants to prevent Russia from winning in Ukraine and threatening broader aggressions, he needs to cut a deal with Republicans to get aid to Kyiv pronto.

Migrants flood East Village block for shot to get back into NYC shelters: 'A humanitarian crisis'

"This is third world," East Villager Yanira Rubio, 24, told The Post. “I’ve seen lines outside this place many times, but this is much more than a line. This is...

Finland shuts down multiple border crossings to stop migrants coming from Russia: PM

Finland shut down four of its nine border crossings with Russia to stop a sudden influx of Middle Eastern and African migrants -- accusing the Kremlin of sending them in...

Entitled migrants' shelter snub: Letters to the Editor — Nov. 15, 2023

The Issue: Migrants bemoan the American dream and the $20.8 million Floyd Bennett Field shelter. Now, illegal migrants are dictating to Adams where they want to stay (“Another busload of...

Fed-up migrants who trekked thousands of miles to US already heading home

Many migrants are discovering that Chicago's resources have been depleted.

Ohio's pro-choice vote: Letters to the Editor — Nov. 13, 2023

NY Post readers discuss Ohio’s vote Tuesday to enshrine strong rights to abortion in the state’s constitution.

Beto O’Rourke says Democrats ‘unexcited’ about Biden: ‘Really failing us’

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) accused President Biden Thursday of “failing” to live up to his 2020 campaign promises on immigration and warned that “unexcited” Democratic voters are “leaving his...

The Biden administration is hiding the real scale of the migrant crisis

US Customs and Border Protection logged a record 269,735 migrants encountered in September, but the numbers could have been much higher if not for the introduction of an app, CBP...

Ohio voters swing pro-choice: Letters to the Editor — Nov. 13, 2023

The Issue: Ohio’s vote Tuesday to enshrine strong rights to abortion in the state’s constitution. I hope that Republican candidates nationwide have learned a lesson from Tuesday’s elections: Stay far...

Senate Republicans demand changes to 'broken' asylum system as part of Biden’s emergency spending request 

Senate Republicans are demanding an overhaul to America's "broken asylum process" as a condition for passing President Biden’s $106 billion emergency spending request to Congress. 

Migrants 3 times more likely to be approved for asylum in liberal NY or Calif. than Texas or Florida

Analyzing the outcomes of asylum cases in the two liberal states shows 61% of cases in New York and 66% of cases in California being approved from January to August.

NYC will place sharp limits on single migrants' stays in city-run homeless shelters

"We anticipate that in the next several weeks we will be rolling out the timeline for the 30-day notices for adults in the [Department of Homeless Services] system," New York City...