We may need to voluntarily seek protection under Chapter 11.
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Arresting them when they seek protection is not the answer.
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You are coerced to break a lawIn order to seek protection.
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"You should seek protection there," he said the immigration official told him.
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In the coming weeks some investors will seek protection and others opportunity.
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Existing industries will seek protection from new technologies and ways of doing business.
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People come to this country because they seek protection, refuge, a better life.
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CAN MIGRANTS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER STILL SEEK PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES?
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Denton filed for personal bankruptcy this month to also seek protection from the judgment.
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Similar conditions in neighboring countries force abused children like Daniel to seek protection elsewhere.
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Under U.S. and international law, they are allowed to seek protection and apply for asylum.
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The toy seller also intends to seek protection in parallel proceedings for its Canadian subsidiary.
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The majority of them does not commit crimes, they rather seek protection and peace in Germany.
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Many of the workers have approached lawmakers to seek protection from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
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It makes sense to seek protection by reinventing ourselves before someone else decides we are dispensable.
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For now, organizers don't know how many people will try to seek protection in the United States.
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Only a relatively smaller amount of people ventured further afield to seek protection from persecution, the organization added.
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The company's founder Nick Denton filed for personal bankruptcy this month to also seek protection from the judgment.
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It would seek protection, particularly as Britain's exit from the bloc would eliminate European subsidies for British agriculture.
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Refugees seek protection from abroad while asylum seekers apply from the U.S. or when arriving at a border.
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Involving former child brides in community activism will help discourage child marriages that seek protection from unrest, Bello said.
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And the adverse effects of protectionism will spread as the business customers of protected industries seek protection for themselves.
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Peabody Energy is the third of the top five US coal producers to seek protection from creditors since 2014.
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Why would we think the Saudis might not also seek protection from Russia if they are shunned by America?
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She arrived at Ciudad Juarez in April to face a three-month wait to seek protection in the United States.
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This means they cannot file for divorce, sign rental leases or seek protection in a shelter if they are abused.
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They include sending asylum-seekers to Guatemala to seek protection there and fast-tracking the deportation of Mexican asylum seekers.
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What we have to do is go to court and seek protection from the court, if we have to do that.
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Lifeline said it has received permission to enter Maltese territorial waters to seek protection from high winds — but not to make port.
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Italy wants changes to existing rules that make asylum seekers the responsibility of the country where they first arrive and seek protection.
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The organization's chairwoman, Kathryn Carson, cited the lawsuits in the decision to seek protection from creditors in federal bankruptcy court in Indianapolis.
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They are availing themselves of an incredibly humanitarian American value — being able to seek protection from violence and persecution in another country.
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In California, where recreational (and before that, medicinal) marijuana is legal, cannabis churches can't seek protection under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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Senior administration officials have also framed the policy as an opportunity for asylum-seekers to seek protection closer to their home countries.
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Indeed, there is no legal way to seek protection in the United States from an embassy or other place outside the country.
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Investors may seek protection against price swings through put options that allow them to sell the underlying asset at above the current price.
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Another 300 or so were in the northern city of Hermosillo, organizers said, and many of them planned to seek protection in Mexico.
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It's time to roll back the harmful policies that make it almost impossible for survivors to seek protection under our country's immigration laws.
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How should liberal societies deal with homegrown political extremists, who seek protection from the democratic norms and institutions they are committed to destroying?
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The EPA advises people not seek protection only with dust masks, such as paper masks designed to trap large particles, or scarves or bandanas.
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Meanwhile, debt restructuring firms are expecting a record amount of business this year as companies seek protection from creditors and go through painful reorganizations.
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There are no legal instruments like restraining orders for women to seek protection from law enforcement agencies, and little immediate chance of creating them.
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The policy sends people from Honduras and El Salvador who tried to seek asylum in the US to Guatemala to seek protection there instead.
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Recommendations include revising the discipinary code, which currently subjects sexual assault victims to disciplinary actions when they seek protection from officials because of sexual abuse.
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"I brought my son to the United States so that we could seek protection from violence in Honduras," actor Lena Waithe says, reading Mirian's letter.
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After losing money through its mismanagement of two large US nuclear construction projects, Westinghouse was forced seek protection in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2017.
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The Trump administration said on Monday it was implementing new rules for immigrants seeking asylum, requiring them to first seek protection from a third country.
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Kurds on the frontlines of the fight against ISIS tell CNN their morale has taken a hit as they seek protection by strengthening other alliances.
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Payless said it intends to seek protection for its Canadian subsidiaries under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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This administration fails to understand that many families fleeing persecution don't have a choice but to seek protection in the U.S. however they can. 3.
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Their bill would have authorized police to seek protection orders from the federal courts, essentially instituting ERPO laws in all 50 states in one fell swoop.
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The Calgary-based company said depressed oil prices and difficulties accessing capital markets had prompted directors to seek protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA).
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Ultra may have to seek protection from its creditors in bankruptcy, the company said in its quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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On the content side, developers will continue to seek protection of their copyright to the games and the underlying concepts regarding how the games are played.
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However, Kurds on the frontlines of the fight against ISIS tell CNN their morale has taken a hit as they seek protection by strengthening other alliances.
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And at the same time, they abrogate the migrants' right, enshrined in those same international agreements, to seek protection even if it means violating immigration rules.
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The term is usually used to direct people to seek protection inside their homes in the event of a natural threat, like a tornado or storm.
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Mr. Ebrard also promised that the Mexican government would offer asylum to thousands of Central American migrants who might otherwise seek protection in the United States.
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This week, Arch Coal, one of the nation's largest coal companies, filed for bankruptcy - the latest mining company to seek protection from creditors in the current downturn.
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The company's petition late on Monday to seek protection from creditors on 65.4 billion reais ($19.2 billion) in liabilities raised alarms about the exposure of local lenders.
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In recent years, applications for asylum have ballooned as more Central Americans fleeing violence back home turn themselves into authorities to seek protection, according to CBP data.
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Cobalt also said it could seek protection under a bilateral investment treaty between Germany and Angola because its Angolan assets were indirectly held by a German subsidiary.
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Mr. McAleenan has prioritized such agreements to slow the flow of migrants fleeing corruption and persecution in their home countries by forcing them to seek protection elsewhere.
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"People came to seek protection, and therefore, before they would want to leave, they would want to be assured of their safety and security," she told Reuters.
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Mr. Trump and his aides have also been trying to reduce the number of refugees who can seek protection by coming to the United States each year.
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Family members are encouraged to visit, both for support and mediation to try and resolve the conflicts that led the women to seek protection in the first place.
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For two years, EU governments have battled without success to fix Dublin&aposs biggest contradiction: that migrants must seek protection in the first European country they arrive in.
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Weatherford's shares plunged 61% to 14 cents in extended trading on Friday after the company reported the plan to seek protection from creditors and a wider quarterly loss.
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Many coal mining companies were forced to seek protection from the bankruptcy courts during 2015 and 2016 as they tried to reorganize their businesses and negotiate with creditors.
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N). The company said its Canadian unit intends to seek protection in parallel proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
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But absent an agreement soon, a growing number of analysts say Puerto Rico will seek protection from creditors under PROMESA's court-sanctioned restructuring process, akin to U.S. bankruptcy.
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Under United States and international law, asylum seekers are afforded the opportunity to seek protection, and the overloaded immigration courts are not up to the challenge, he added.
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Many coal mining companies were forced to seek protection from the bankruptcy courts during 2015 and 2016 as they tried to reorganise their businesses and negotiate with creditors.
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"We tried to seek protection as the accused and their family kept threatening my daughter and my family, but we received little help from the government," he said.
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And in a statistic with special significance for Senator Biden, more women will be victimized by predatory lenders than will seek protection from an abusive husband or boyfriend.
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Zeyar Lin said the poorest prisoners had no such option, and some resorted to offering sex or other services to wealthy convicts or the stick-holders to seek protection.
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Weatherford's shares plunged 61% to 14 cents in extended trading on Friday after reporting the plan to seek protection from creditors and a near doubling of its quarterly loss.
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Ortega said she has received an offer of political asylum from Colombia, but has not yet decided whether to go to the country or seek protection in another nation.
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The lawmakers are also looking into whether directors of Carillion had petitioned the government to seek protection from any breaches of regulation prior to a July 2017 profit warning.
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" Human Rights First's Eleanor Acer called the new rule "the latest shameful tactic in a years-long campaign to vilify and punish those who seek protection in this country.
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By law, contracts — including bond pledges — cannot be unilaterally broken except in bankruptcy, but as a United States territory Puerto Rico has no standing to seek protection under bankruptcy statutes.
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Energy XXI was among the largest energy producers to seek protection from creditors due to a deep two-year slump in the price of oil and low natural gas prices.
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"The escalating verbal harassment and threats of Sam Lutfi left no choice for Courtney and her family but to seek protection," a representative for Love told PEOPLE in a statement.
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Suddenly, someone asks you to talk about, in this confusing and frightening place, the traumatic events that compelled you to seek protection in the United States — your most unspeakable experiences.
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The murder led Mr. Valachi to seek protection from the F.B.I., cooperate, and testify before Congress in 1963, becoming the first mob figure to admit publicly that the Mafia existed.
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Each year since 2013, tens of thousands of Salvadorans, many of them women and children, have braved the journey across Guatemala and Mexico to seek protection in the United States.
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This week, the administration is expected to begin implementing an agreement with Guatemala that allows the US to begin transferring some asylum seeking migrants to Guatemala to seek protection there.
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This whole process is typically lengthy, and with good reason: Immigrants have a right to seek protection in the US and should be afforded a full opportunity to do so.
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Market uncertainty has sent investors fleeing for safety, including low-risk debt, to seek protection from market volatility as trade conflicts between the United States and its trading partners have deepened.
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Plans to ramp up immigration enforcement will increase the risk of state violence against undocumented women, and make women less likely to seek protection from the police for fear of deportation.
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Factors that lead Syrian refugees to seek protection at our borders are likely very different than those that lead Midwesterners to overdose from heroin or immigrants to cross our border illegally.
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Bankers and lawyers expect bankruptcies to set a record in 2017, with tight credit and the lingering recession forcing a growing number of large Brazilian companies to seek protection from creditors.
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The biggest U.S. energy price crash in a generation has now pushed more than 60 North American oil and gas producers to seek protection from creditors since early 2015, regulatory filings show.
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Star's lawyer John Bursch brought up camouflage, saying that when a company comes up with a design for camouflage it could seek protection for the design, but not for the garments themselves.
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So people seek protection and provision of their everyday needs through their families and communities or an association, religious brotherhood, political party or other group that will absorb them into its networks.
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The government promises that these arrests would target only those people with final orders of removal who received a fair day in court and have no more legal avenues left to seek protection.
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The German Interior Ministry said on Tuesday the refugees and asylum seekers concerned had already said at the border crossing that they did not want to seek protection in Germany but rather elsewhere.
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Human rights advocates say it makes no sense to ask migrants to seek protection in countries like El Salvador and Guatemala, which are among the most dangerous, gang-ridden places in the world.
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Corburn is nevertheless eager to see if the city's interventions — whether encouraging youths about their power to make change or assisting victims of sex trafficking to seek protection — will translate into health gains.
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"Renewed safe-haven buying and portfolio diversification as investors seek protection from market turbulences, potential recessions, and growing bearish sentiment," are supportive factors to gold's outlook, analysts at Societe Generale said in a note.
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If a husband describes his most profound ethical transgressions to his wife, she is free to seek protection from him, or at least free to share what he has told her with someone else.
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For immigrant women in the U.S., President Trump's heightened threat of deportation under his new executive orders on immigration will make it feel dangerous to seek protection — and that could cost victims their lives.
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This year, eventually became never after Puerto Rico triggered bankruptcy-like proceedings, and the island began restructuring its debt to seek protection from creditors — pushing the already depreciated bond prices within the funds lower.
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"It was shocking to me that they were being prosecuted when they were coming here to seek protection from horrific violence," said Mr. Fish, a trial lawyer at the Federal Defenders of San Diego.
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The controversial policy, which has been in place since late last year, sends people from Honduras and El Salvador who try to seek asylum in the US to Guatemala to seek protection there instead.
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Senior administration officials have said the policy of sending asylum-seekers from El Salvador and Honduras to Guatemala is an opportunity for individuals from the countries to seek protection closer to their home countries.
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"There are 140 of us who have organized to share our commissary," wrote Ulises, who came to the United States to seek protection from the abuse he suffered as a gay man in Honduras.
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It would still be flatly illegal under international and US law, which make it clear that people have the right to seek protection from persecution in the US whether or not they have papers.
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The company, once the world's largest offshore driller by the market capitalisation, was forced to seek protection from creditors when it was unable to repay its debts amassed during boom years to buy new rigs.
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Once the implementation plan is in place and logistics are firmed up, the US will begin transferring some asylum seeking migrants to Guatemala to seek protection there, according to a source familiar with the plan.
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SAO PAULO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Brazilian homebuilder PDG Realty SA and subsidiaries will seek protection from creditors on Wednesday by filing to restructure its debts in a Sao Paulo court, according to a securities filing.
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A sharp selloff at the start of the year left crude prices hovering around $30 per barrel, below break-even levels for most drillers, fuelling expectations that many may seek protection from creditors this year.
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Trump has said U.S. asylum laws, which allow those who claim fear of returning to their home countries to seek protection through a U.S. court process, need to be changed to deter migrants from coming.
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"The administration has waged a yearlong campaign to undermine the asylum system and vilify those who seek protection at our border," Eleanor Acer, director of the refugee protection program at Human Rights First, said Thursday.
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Practically, for now, that means that asylum seekers may continue to seek protection without these restrictions in California and Arizona, but asylum seekers in Texas and New Mexico will be subject to the asylum rule.
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Syrian Christians have tended to seek protection in regime-controlled areas; of those who have left Syria, a majority have gone to Lebanon, where they have support from friends, family and a large Christian community.
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Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan told reporters Friday that the agreement is primarily focused on helping El Salvador develop its asylum system, with the intention that migrants should first seek protection there.
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Mayor Don Guardian had threatened to seek protection from the city's creditors in bankruptcy court, a prospect that could have embarrassed Mr. Christie, who is campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination as a prudent financial steward.
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Chains, such as R.H. Macy & Co, would typically pile up cash at the year-end, seek protection from creditors in January and then spend at least a year or two working out a viable business plan.
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On Tuesday, with little opposition, delegates adopted resolutions condemning any sexual misconduct by SBC ministers, urging more action to prevent "all forms of abuse," and encouraging victims to contact civil authorities to seek protection and support.
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Previously, lawyers were able to walk minors who were traveling without their parents to ports of entry to request asylum from US immigration officials, one of the last remaining methods for unaccompanied minors to seek protection.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that the retailer will seek protection ahead of the deadlines for its May rent payments and that Aeropostale may close 100 of its 800 locations, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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Undocumented former employees of the Trump Organization met with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to seek protection from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and urge an investigation into the hiring practices at the president's business.
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They seek protection against all the forces they perceive as hostile to their cherished way of life — foreign people, foreign goods, foreign ideas, aided and abetted by a government they no longer believe cares about them.
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Unwelcoming statements were issued by American officials, including Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, who told migrants who intended to apply for asylum in the United States that they "should" instead seek protection in Mexico.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 27 (Reuters) - South African non-food retailer Edcon will be unable to pay its suppliers while a countrywide coronavirus lockdown is in place and may need to seek protection from creditors, its CEO said.
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The US and El Salvador signed an agreement on Friday that could force asylum-seekers crossing through El Salvador to seek protection in that violent Central American country instead of seeking protections in the US first.
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In this case, it is clear that Mr. Trump wants to deny entry to anyone crossing the southern border, even those who have a right to cross and seek protection and are no threat to us.
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LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC's plans to boost output have spooked oil market bulls, who are starting to seek protection at levels well below the current futures price in case the group delivers a rapid increase in production.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France will seek protection of local jobs and other guarantees in exchange for supporting a merger between carmakers Renault and Fiat Chrysler, its finance minister said on Tuesday, underscoring the challenges facing the plan.
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Meanwhile, Turkey's descent into what is likely to be a government witch hunt for "putschists" and massive violent reprisals means more anger, more polarization and a destabilized population that is more likely to seek protection from outside.
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The organizers and lawyers identified the strongest asylum cases — about 200, most of them children — and encouraged those people to apply for protection, while suggesting that the remainder seek protection in Mexico or elsewhere in Latin America.
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BIO-ON (shares suspended from trading) The bio-plastic maker could seek protection from creditors, daily MF said, after the company's top shareholders and top managers were arrested in a probe into alleged false accounting and market manipulation.
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This new terror is compounded by the trauma already experienced by these children — the violence, persecution, and other harm they faced in their home country that caused them to seek protection in the US in the first place.
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But under a proposal for a bilateral agreement that the Trump administration has broached with Mexican officials, American border officials would have been able to legally turn back those asylum seekers, forcing them to seek protection in Mexico.
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"Certain Mexicans seeking humanitarian protections in the United States may now be eligible to be transferred to Guatemala and given the opportunity to seek protection there, under the terms of the Guatemala Asylum Cooperative Agreement," the spokesperson said.
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The number of African migrants traveling through Mexico to seek protection in the US is on the rise, showing that the Central American corridor to the border isn't just traveled by those who are native to the region.
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With virtually no opposition, delegates at the meeting adopted resolutions condemning any sexual misconduct by SBC ministers, urging more action to prevent "all forms of abuse," and encouraging abuse victims to contact civil authorities to seek protection and support.
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Even as the number of overall asylum claims surged in recent years — generating a waitlist of more than 5,000 people in Tijuana alone — unaccompanied children generally skipped the list and were allowed to enter the U.S. and seek protection.
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The company joins a growing list of British retailers that have been forced to seek protection from creditors after being hit hard by competition from online shopping platforms and a rise in costs from the pound's Brexit-induced weakness.
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Much like the 2017 Muslim ban, which failed in federal court, the administration's policies will impact people who have no criminal history at all and who are, in fact, victims of crime with a legal right to seek protection.
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For example, if an asylum seeker can prove to U.S. authorities that he or she has a fear of torture if returned home, they would be allowed to seek protection under the Convention Against Torture in the United States.
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U.S. Treasury yields on Monday fell to their lowest levels since September 2017 as investors piled more cash into low-risk debt to seek protection from market volatility, and also on expectations of an imminent rate cut from the Federal Reserve.
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Specifically, administration officials have been working on a plan that would make anyone who transited through a third country by land to the southern border ineligible for asylum if they did not first seek protection in the country they traveled through.
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While most girl soldiers in the vast central African nation are abducted by armed groups, others join voluntarily to obtain food and money, to seek protection against violence, or because their families cannot afford to pay their school fees, CSI says.
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Under a proposed bilateral agreement that the Trump administration has discussed with Mexican officials, United States border officials would be able to legally turn back asylum seekers who first pass through Mexico, forcing them to seek protection south of the border.
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As the Open Markets Institute, for which I work, explained in an amicus brief, deciding an antitrust case using the amorphous concept of a "two-sided" market will incentivize all sorts of companies to seek protection under this bad new theory.
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An estimated 4.5 million immigrants had been waiting on the Supreme Court's decision to find out whether they'd be able to seek protection from deportation and work legally in the US, and the Supreme Court has just told them they can't.
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The Trump administration will start sending Mexican asylum seekers to Guatemala under an agreement brokered last year, a move that blindsided Mexican officials and will make it more difficult for Mexicans to seek protection in the US from violence and persecution.
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On Wednesday, Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo reported that PDG would likely seek protection from creditors by the end of the year and said the company was in advanced talks with a financial adviser to help it in the effort.
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DHS has already signed an asylum agreement with Guatemala that would require asylum-seekers who travel through the country to first seek protection there before being able to ask the US for refuge, but it has yet to be implemented.
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Leshchenko told ABC News that in Ukraine, the proposed investigation was encouraged by Shokin's successor, Yuri Lutsenko, whom Leshchenko said sought out Giuliani to seek protection from the U.S. because he was concerned Zelensky would dismiss him as prosecutor general.
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And intends to seek protection under CCAA in Canada * Toys R Us Inc - Operations outside U.S. And Canada not included in proceedings * Toys R Us Inc - Company receives commitment of over $3.0 billion in debtor-in-possession financing to support operations * Toys R Us Inc - Co, certain units voluntarily filed for relief under Chapter 11 of bankruptcy code in bankruptcy court for eastern district of Virginia in Richmond * Toys R Us Inc - Canadian subsidiary intends to seek protection in parallel proceedings under companies' creditors arrangement act in Ontario superior court of justice Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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In a section of the briefing detailing potential "asks" of the Guatemalan president, officials said McAleenan should push for help to ensure that the two countries collaborate to implement a "phased approach to the transfer of migrants" who seek protection in Guatemala.
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Trump's bluster highlights his desire to close down our border to asylum seekers, despite their legitimate right to seek protection in the U.S., our country's long history of providing refuge to those fleeing persecution, and this nation's fundamental values of freedom and democracy.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Bankruptcy filings by U.S. energy producers so far this year have already nearly matched the total for the whole of 27, law firm Haynes & Boone reported on Wednesday, as volatile oil and gas prices drive companies to seek protection from creditors.
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"It is a system on paper that looks like it gives opportunity to children to seek protection in the United States, but the reality of that system is daunting even for well-trained lawyers, let alone for the children themselves," Benson said.
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"The challenge for Canada is that our refugee policies don't recognize climate-induced displacement as a valid basis to seek protection, [with few exceptions]," said Sharry Aiken, a law professor at Queen's University who has argued refugee cases before Canada's supreme court.
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The Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, becoming the latest Roman Catholic diocese to seek protection from creditors as it faces tens of millions of dollars in outstanding claims from people who were sexually abused by clergy members.
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"Certain Mexicans seeking humanitarian protections in the United States may now be eligible to be transferred to Guatemala and given the opportunity to seek protection there, under the terms of the Guatemala Asylum Cooperative Agreement," said a DHS spokesperson in a statement.
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The new regulation would make anyone traveling through Mexico by land to the southern border ineligible for asylum if they did not first seek protection before reaching the US. Immigrants could attempt to receive protection through a process that would be much more difficult.
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HOUSTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Bankruptcy filings by U.S. energy producers so far this year have already nearly matched the total for the whole of 27, law firm Haynes & Boone reported on Wednesday, as volatile oil and gas prices drive companies to seek protection from creditors.
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Kurds' morale hit Kurds on the front lines of the fight against ISIS in Syria have told CNN their morale has taken a hit as they seek protection by strengthening other alliances -- including with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Russians.
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But for the people piling up at the Nuevo Laredo International Bridge, the wait can feel like a final, unpredictable test of their determination to seek protection in the US—and Mexican officials even tried to break up the line, multiple asylum seekers told me.
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Mr. Giambra admits that he doesn't understand the nuances of asylum law, as the Border Patrol's workload changes from arresting and deporting people who enter the country illegally to dealing with the growing number of migrants arriving to seek protection from persecution in their homelands.
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On the one hand, Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen insists that those in flight come to ports of entry, but her agency is forcing people to wait in Mexico for weeks in such dangerous conditions that people must resort to crossing between ports to seek protection.
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The Trump administration signed an agreement Wednesday that will force asylum-seekers who travel through Honduras to first seek protection there, effectively creating a barrier along the entire Central American region known as the Northern Triangle for those trying to get into the United States.
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"Thai authorities should immediately halt any deportation, and either allow her to continue her travel to Australia or permit her to remain in Thailand to seek protection as a refugee," Michael Page, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on Monday.
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"Overall what we've seen is the different harsh measures taken by the Trump administration to separate families at the border and to lock up more asylum seekers—but even with this we're still seeing a high number of families coming to seek protection," Meyer told me.
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"Our initial assessment is that he was trying to reach PYD-controlled parts of northern Syria in an attempt to seek protection," the official said referring to Syria's main Kurdish party, which Turkey considers a terrorist group because of its ties to Kurdish militants in Turkey.
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Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who in February called on National Labor Relations Board general counsel Richard Griffin to resign after Griffin issued a memo stating that football players at Division I FBS schools are employees under federal law and can seek protection against unfair labor practices.
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And they're only willing to agree to that change if Congress amends a 2008 law known as the TVPRA (Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization Act), to crack down on Central American children who come to the US to seek protection instead of waiting in their home countries.
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"Under the law, aliens may be removed from the U.S. according to a bilateral or multilateral agreement so that those who are in need of legitimate and immediate protection can seek protection within the region, closer to home, without taking the dangerous journey," said a DHS spokesperson.
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"I kind of had it in the back of my mind that something like this was going to happen, but I didn't think it would happen this soon," said Garcia, who's too old to seek protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly's effort to disguise the well-understood harm to children who are separated from their mothers as an act of compassion, believing that it will deter mothers fleeing violence from continuing to seek protection for their children in the United States, is misinformed.
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The plaintiffs in the case - prosecutors, a group that represents indigent defendants and a rights group - said people who feared being arrested by ICE agents were also unable to go to court to seek protection from a violent partner or make a complaint for unpaid wages.
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The ACLU's lawsuit argues that U.S. law establishes that an asylum-seeker can only be required to seek protection in another country under two conditions: when the United States has a "safe third country" agreement in place, or when the asylum-seeker has firmly resettled in another country.
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Previously, officials in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have argued that migrants with a valid need for asylum should seek protection in the first 'safe' country where they have the chance to apply, since many migrants travel through multiple countries on their way to the U.S. border.
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The suit argues that U.S. law establishes that an asylum-seeker can only be required to seek protection in another country under two conditions: when the United States has a "safe third country" agreement in place with that state, or when the asylum-seeker has firmly resettled in another country.
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"Under the law, aliens may be removed from the U.S. according to a bilateral or multilateral agreement so that those who are in need of legitimate and immediate protection can seek protection within the region, closer to home, without taking the dangerous journey," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement.
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Camila Díaz Córdova A transgender woman who sought asylum in the US and was deported by immigration authorities to El Salvador was killed earlier this month, advocates say, highlighting the violent conditions LGBT migrants have fled in Central America to seek protection in the US. Camila Díaz Córdova, 29, died on Feb.
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In a country with a rich history of freedom of expression and where secularism is a basic tenet of the constitution, the violence has forced many writers, who can't seek protection from police because they risk being arrested for insulting Islam in their work, to flee for their lives or censor themselves.
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But Trump's panic has already led to a border crackdown that has separated (temporarily or permanently) thousands of families, opened the door to long-term detention of thousands more, and could be denying people the right to seek protection from mortal danger — a right that is supposed to be guaranteed under US law.
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Reports of people apprehended for immigration violations pollinate the news daily: a father arrested right after dropping his daughter off at school; a battered woman arrested in the courthouse where she had gone to seek protection from her violent boyfriend; an immigrant kept in a detention center despite having a brain tumor.
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"We have never seen anything like this horrific, cruel policy of separating mothers and children, fathers and children, pulling young children from the arms of their parents, the parents who brought them here to seek protection," said Denise Gilman, director of the University of Texas Law School's Immigration Center, during a press call on Friday.
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"It's entirely proper for the Chinese government to seek protection for consumers and prevent fraud, (but) confining capital raising to a specific established sector of finance ... is to ignore the enormous societal value that blockchain technology can present," said Alex Bessonov of BitClave, a Silicon Valley-based blockchain company, which, he said, is now discouraging Chinese investors.
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Pandey's petition is more "evidence of a global movement of youth rising up and taking their governments to court to seek protection of their fundamental rights to a stable climate system and demand science-based climate action," Julia Olson, lead counsel in the U.S. climate lawsuit and executive director of Our Children's Trust, said in an earlier statement.
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There are bills in Texas (SB6), Missouri (HB202), South Carolina (H3012), and Virginia (HB1667) that actually want to prevent localities from establishing laws that provide more protections than the state presently afford, in essence making it illegal to seek protection against discrimination that isn't currently protected—and gender identity is not explicitly covered in many anti-discrimination laws.
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And he's brokered agreements with the countries in Central America's "Northern Triangle" region — Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador — that would allow his administration to send migrants back to those countries to seek protection there rather than in the US. Only the agreement with Guatemala is in effect so far, but the agreement with Honduras is weeks away from implementation.
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The UN doesn't always agree with how the US implements its asylum system — it doesn't, for example, believe it's appropriate to detain asylum seekers — but there's never been disagreement over the bedrock principle that people ought to be able to seek protection from persecution by fleeing to another country, even if they don't have papers when they arrive.
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"Attorneys have seen for years the denigration of legal protections for immigrants at the border when CBP fails to follow proper procedure, including turning away asylum seekers at the border and denying them the opportunity to seek protection and summarily deporting people without due process in clear violation of U.S. and international law," American Immigration Lawyers Association Director Greg Chen told NBC.
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" In response to law enforcement requests, a Slack spokesperson said the company "will notify Customers before disclosing any of Customer's Customer Data so that the Customer may seek protection from such disclosure, unless Slack is prohibited from doing so or there is a clear indication of illegal conduct or risk of harm to people or property associated with the use of such Customer Data.
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This new policy is only the latest in a line of so far unsuccessful strategies to dissuade Central American families from coming to seek protection in the US. Beginning in 2014, facing the fact that families from the Northern Triangle countries were fleeing northward en masse, the Obama administration began opening family detention centers like Dilley and conducting deportation raids of Central Americans who lost their asylum cases.
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