A Human Rights Watch report released today details the plight of asylum seekers who flee abuses in their home countries to seek shelter in the United States. According to the report, released with researchers at Seton Hall University, the United States is the only country in the developed world that denies both work authorization and government aid to asylum seekers. One rape survivor from Rwanda said she was unable to work for four years while her asylum claim was pending, a situation that “kills you emotionally,” she said.