D. are defending themselves from deportation to their home country
There are several ways to ask for asylum, in this case asylum defensively applies for people whose life is threatened if they return to their home countries, could be by civil war, the state, the police, or society.
The correct answer is <span>d. are defending themselves from deportation to their home country
A famous example of this was Bobby Fisher, the famous chess player, who got an asylum in Iceland so as to not get deported to the US where he would stand trial for hate speech. </span>
The correct answer to this is: checks and balances.
The system of checks and balances is the system by which branches of government are limited by other branches. This ensures that no one branch becomes too powerful.
