Joan Paul Alcivar De La Cruz fled persecution in Ecuador and was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his asylum hearing, his wife told CBS News.

The Home Office has launched an investigation into asylum seeker payment cards after data showed some had been misused for gambling. A Freedom of Information request made by PoliticsHome revealed more than 6,500 payments in gambling settings were attempted by asylum seekers in the past year.

No plane was chartered for the operation and the man, who arrived as a juvenile asylum seeker in Ireland in 2008, was flown out on a normal passenger service

EXCLUSIVE: A foster carer has recounted her experience looking after an unaccompanied asylum seeker who turned out to be older than she thought.

ASYLUM seekers are still receiving money on taxpayer-funded credit cards even after being granted refugee status. A probe has been launched after we uncovered cases of migrants saying they were

Trying to get to the UK is a treacherous journey for refugees. Even if they make it, growing protests and increasingly hard-line policies are waiting for them.

At the end of a three-day leaders' summit in Huntsville, Ont., the country's premiers agreed to look at ways to use their constitutional powers to hand out work permits.

ASYLUM seekers staying in taxpayer-funded hotels are swiping  thousands of pounds of designer gear from top stores. Tipped off by a security firm, we saw organised gangs exit