The Trump administration has proposed regulations that would effectively upend the current asylum system.听A group of asylees discuss the devastating impact these proposed changes would have听on听the outcome of their听asylum听cases.听
Dayana is a transgender Afro-Cuban woman and political dissident who won听asylum while detained in Louisiana; Jay is a young, gay Jamaican听student, actor and aspiring civil rights attorney living in New York as an听asylee;听and Ali is an Iranian asylee who fled his country due to religious听persecution after converting to Christianity, which is a capital crime in that听country.
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