AP offers insight on proposed application fee for asylum seekers

By Nomaan Merchant, Colleen Long and Eric Gay

Nomaan Merchant, reporter, Dallas; Colleen Long, homeland security reporter, Washington; and Eric Gay, San Antonio-based photographer, for demonstrating AP’s geographic reach with an insightful take on Trump administration plan to charge asylum seekers a fee. While other news organizations dutifully reported on the proposed fee, the AP team was on the ground talking to the people it would impact.