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China’s Uighurs Stuck in Asylum Limbo

Only an estimated 8,000 Uighurs remain in western China, and many would have worthy asylum claims after facing genocide and ethnic discrimination

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Hundreds of Uighur Muslims from western China have been waiting years for their claims of asylum in the U.S. to be heard. Uighurs’ conditions in China have rapidly deteriorated over the past few years, but many of them have been stuck in the growing immigration backlog. Rights groups say the number of Uighurs remaining in China, many of whom likely have strong asylum claims, is less than 8,000. Many Uighurs came to the U.S. to study or for work and then filed asylum claims after Chinese authorities clamped down in Xinjiang. The Wall Street Journal

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