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I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.

The refugee crisis is a challenge for the whole of Europe, and Europe - it's a very fair point to say it's not just a security issue. It's also an economic issue.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila.

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care.