While the Trump administration targets China with sanctions over its treatment of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, an immigration backlog in the U.S. has left hundreds of Uighurs waiting years for a decision on their asylum requests
Kalbinur Awut came to the U.S. in 2015 from China’s far west for graduate study. Soon after arriving at the University of Rhode Island, she applied for political asylum. A member of the mostly Muslim Uighur minority, she had been harassed in China for wearing headscarves and was briefly detained after she applied to study overseas.
When she signed into a website run by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services this month to check her status, the same old message greeted her, with her wait time the only update: “Your case...
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