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Asylees Discuss Impact of Trump Proposal

The Trump administration has proposed regulations that would effectively upend the current asylum system.ÌýA group of asylees discuss the devastating impact these proposed changes would haveÌýonÌýthe outcome of theirÌýasylumÌýcases.Ìý

Dayana is a transgender Afro-Cuban woman and political dissident who wonÌýasylum while detained in Louisiana; Jay is a young, gay JamaicanÌýstudent, actor and aspiring civil rights attorney living in New York as anÌýasylee;Ìýand Ali is an Iranian asylee who fled his country due to religiousÌýpersecution after converting to Christianity, which is a capital crime in thatÌýcountry.

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