Asylum seeker
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An asylum seeker or asylum-seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to t
Konrad Schumann, an East German border guard, fleeing East Germany towards West Germany in 1962
Illegal immigration
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Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of that country's immigration laws, including unauthorized entry or continued residence after the expiration of a valid visa.
Asylum seeker
…determine whether the asylum seeker will be granted the right of asylum protection or whether asylum will be refused and the asylum seeker becomes an illegal immigrant who may be asked to leave the country and may even be deported in line with non-refoulement. Signatories to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…
An asylum seeker that has illegally crossed from the United States to Canada is being detained.
Arrested refugees/immigrants in Fylakio detention centre, Evros, northern Greece
Migrant family freighthopping in southern Mexico from Central America
Border patrol at sea by the US Customs and Border Protection