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Lambda Legal represented asylum-seeker, Jorge Soto Vega, who was fleeing antigay police brutality in his home country of Mexico.
Hayley Gorenberg: The Perils of 'Passing' as a Goal Hayley Gorenberg 2010
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Lambda Legal represented asylum-seeker, Jorge Soto Vega, who was fleeing antigay police brutality in his home country of Mexico.
Hayley Gorenberg: The Perils of 'Passing' as a Goal Hayley Gorenberg 2010
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In Monday's pictures, boy attends his Army uncle's funeral, an Iranian asylum-seeker sews her mouth shut, a villager works in a salt field in Tibet and more.
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Lambda Legal represented asylum-seeker, Jorge Soto Vega, who was fleeing antigay police brutality in his home country of Mexico.
Hayley Gorenberg: The Perils of 'Passing' as a Goal Hayley Gorenberg 2010
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Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images SEWN SHUT: Iranian asylum-seeker Mandana Daneshnia, who had her mouth sewed shut for a hunger strike, sat with her daughter before a news conference in Athens Monday.
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As an asylum-seeker I didn't have much chance to move about England – I had to sign on at the police station every week, says Joel, now 21.
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Depending on how much support a refugee has received, and how consistent their surroundings are in the non-home place they find themselves, they can go from trauma victim to trauma survivor, but the journey is long, and most live in asylum-seeker "limbo" for years on end before resettlement.
Ming Holden: The Real Haunted House Ming Holden 2011
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The designation frees the government from housing and feeding the illegal migrants while stopping short of granting them refugee or asylum-seeker status.
Israel Studies Plan to Detain Illegal Migrants Joel Millman 2011
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Depending on how much support a refugee has received, and how consistent their surroundings are in the non-home place they find themselves, they can go from trauma victim to trauma survivor, but the journey is long, and most live in asylum-seeker "limbo" for years on end before resettlement.
Ming Holden: The Real Haunted House Ming Holden 2011
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Lambda Legal represented asylum-seeker, Jorge Soto Vega, who was fleeing antigay police brutality in his home country of Mexico.
Hayley Gorenberg: The Perils of 'Passing' as a Goal Hayley Gorenberg 2010
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