Established in 1827, the former colonial "insane asylum" and hospital has held thousands of people, including alcoholics, people with disabilities and young unmarried women. It closed in 2000.

The Mary Belle Sanatorium is a former sanatorium built after World War II, built to isolate tuberculosis patients. Built in ...

Washington — The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging President Trump's move to close down the American asylum system, saying it violates legal ...

Plans to use a former hospital in East Sussex as accommodation for asylum seekers are under consideration by the Home Office, it has been confirmed. The Esperance Hospital in Eastbourne operated ...

JUÁREZ, Mexico ― Uncontrollable shock and dismay erupted from migrants at the entrance to the El Paso del Norte bridge as they learned their asylum appointments were canceled. Some migrants ...

NICOSIA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Syrians who sought refuge in Cyprus after the onset of civil war over a decade ago have withdrawn asylum applications in the weeks since the fall of Bashar ...

her 9-year-old son Abel Jesus, says. Polanco and the other nine members of her family are among thousands of asylum-seekers who were stopped in their tracks by US President Donald Trump’s ...

WASHINGTON — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the president’s recent proclamation aimed at completely shutting down asylum at the border, a move that puts ...

It’s inconceivable that this peculiar building—once part of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum—set the foundation for the university’s campus. It feels like an incongruous piece in a jigsaw ...

As detailed in the 2017 documentary Forever Prison, a decade before 9/11, U.S. officials intercepted boats carrying thousands of Haitian refugees seeking asylum following a bloody coup in their ...

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