After fleeing to U.S., some asylum-seekers run north to escape Trump crackdown


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  • Friday, 10 Mar 2017

FILE PHOTO - An international boundary marker marks the Canada - U.S. border near the former border crossing at Emerson, Manitoba, Canada on February 25, 2017. REUTERS/Lyle Stafford/File Photo

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Somali-born Abdulrahman Mohamed was a social worker in Grand Forks, North Dakota, for three years. He had a U.S. work permit and earned a promotion while waiting for his asylum claim to be heard.

He had an apartment and was sending $350 a month to family in a Kenyan refugee camp. That changed in January. Mohamed and three friends with pending asylum claims were told to meet with an immigration officer to discuss their cases. When his friends went to their meetings they called him to say they had been detained. He has not heard from them since.

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