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Over the weekend, asylum seekers in New York were flooded with messages — some from their lawyers — telling them to pay a $100 fee to the Trump administration by Tuesday or risk deportation.

Moussa, an asylum seeker from Mali who lives in Manhattan, received a WhatsApp message from his lawyer’s office on Saturday instructing him to pay the fee by Tuesday. “Failure to pay and meet this deadline can and will result in Dismissal of your claim of relief and possible order of removal,” the message said.

Moussa didn’t have $100 on hand — “I just paid my rent,

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