Asylum+for+Refugees

__**What does asylum for refugees mean?**__ Asylum as an international law mean a refuge granted an alien by a sovereign state on its own territory. [|1] Asylum for refugees mean to provide refuge or a secure home for a person concern as being at risk from the government of their own country. [|2]

__**Why do people seek asylum?**__ People seek asylum because their country is too dangerous for them to remain. This could be because of a political situation, a natural experience, refugee status, for crimes committed with a ridiculously unfair or deadly consequence. People who flee to the United States like victims of religious persecution from Sudan, torture survivors from Iraq, victim who are being control by policies in China, etc, arrive to what they believe they reach a place that is safe, free and treated equal. [|3]

__**What is America's policy on asylum for refugees?**__ America's policy on asylum is to help refugees feel safe when they decide to come to the United States. The main reason they came to get away from problems such as "expedited removal" procedures, "mandaotry detention", lack of legal representation of a person by the government, and constant parole practices. America's policy on asylm for refugees is to also protect the rights of refugees that they don't get in their homeland. [|4]

__**What are some groups that help refugees?**__ Human Rights First protect the rights of refugees through its pro bono program and its encouragement. Since 9/11, these problems have double amount as the U.S. government has taken charge to the fairness of the U.S. asylum process and further limit access to asylum. Human Rights First’s Refugee Protection Program is committed to advancing the rights of refugees. They accomplish this by making sure that refugees have access to asylum, by recommanding for fair asylum procedures, by pressing for U.S. compliance with other refugee from the world and human rights law, and by helping individual refugees to gain asylum through the pro bono Asylum Legal Representation Program.Human Rights First is a non-profit international human rights organization based in New York and Washington D.C. [|5]

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants address the needs and rights of persons in forced migration worldwide by the growth of the advancing fair and humane public policy, promote and providing direct professional services, and the full support of migrants in community life. [|6]

__**Refences:**__ 1.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/asylum 2.http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_political_asylum_mean 3.http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091005062822AAzBuZE 4&5.http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/asylum/asylum-program.aspx 6.http://www.refugees.org/about%20uscri.aspx