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When international agreements threaten your safety

My asylum case has been pending for four years and my lawyer just told me that new bilateral agreements between my home country and host country might make me deportable retroactively.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're discovering how powerless individuals become when states renegotiate the rules that govern human protection.

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“Where Are You with International law and its limits?”

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