asylum

While earlier cases primarily involved ICE pursuing immigrants with final deportation orders, the arrests now involve people with expired visas but another form of legal status pending, such as a green card or asylum application.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Asked why the athletes might be looking to seek asylum, the team manager said he didn't know.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

He was twice refused asylum in Austria after police stopped him there in June 2022.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

But Spain’s Supreme Court recently weakened that border enforcement, and many migrants seem to have believed this means that if they crossed the border they could take their chances on asylum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Facing prosecution and jail, Smith suffered a mental breakdown and briefly committed himself to an insane asylum.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

We no longer write of ideæ, chori, asyla, musea, sphinges, specimina for ideas, choruses, asylums, museums, sphinxes, specimens, and the notion of returning to such plurals would seem barbarous and absurd.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions by Society for Pure English

Greece had its famous asyla, but the custom of our own country was probably influenced from Hebrew rather than classical sources.

From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various

Or were they swimming with the normative current in order to maintain careers, families, social standing — or, for that matter, to avoid being sent to asylums for shock treatment?

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Orson and Lorenzo, consummate showmen, were summoned to prisons, where they inspected the heads of inmates and guessed their crimes; at lunatic asylums they were challenged to identify the patients’ disorders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The Magdalene Laundries were back in the spotlight recently following the death of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who spent time in one of the former asylums as a teenager.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023

From the 1960s to ’80s, as most asylums closed, the Supreme Court and other federal courts attempted to establish tighter restrictions on forcibly treating people under civil mental health laws.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2023

I couldn’t stop reading about the horrors—especially the stories about orphan asylums filled with unloved and underfed waifs.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan