Asylum seekers usually start out as illegal immigrants. You’re either innocent or ignorant (which is worse?), but asylum fraud occurs at a non-trivial rate as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/24/nyregion/doubts-cast-on-i...

Other cases mentioned here https://whyy.org/articles/illegal-immigrants-lie-to-get-asyl...

Regarding the sentence which introduces the newspaper, if your reading comprehension is failing you, that’s not my problem.