[Re: “Del Rio Closes Border Bridge as Thousands of Haitian Migrants Fleeing Disaster and Unrest Seek Asylum.”]
By Eahilf The standard phrase used to be political asylum – the concept came out of the 1951 refugee convention/treaty, which was motivated by the political/legal persecution of Jews by the Third Reich – nowadays the word “political” has largely been dropped, in a deliberate effort to expand who is seen as eligible for asylum/refugee status – poverty, lack of economic opportunity, an overabundance of ordinary criminality, etc., have never been, and should never be seen as, grounds for asylum.
Sunday, September 19, 2021 at 4:13:00 A.M. EDT
What Norm MacDonald might riff about on this subject.
ReplyDelete"So the US government is now letting refugees in for many reasons--not just political asylum.I've got the updated list right here.
"Your wife in El Salvador is nagging you about taking out the trash every week--you qualify.
"Unable to get'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter' at the grocery store?You qualify.
"In Haiti,if your basic cable is only 25 stations--you qualify."
"You've had a job for six months or more--and you want to spend the rest of your life sucking on the teat of the US welfare system--you qualify.
"You're tired of killing your own countrymen and want to kill White Americans--like the blacks do--you qualify.
--GRA
In other words, just because your country is a shithole doesn't mean you deserve asylum.
ReplyDeletejerry pdx
ReplyDelete90% of the people in the 3rd world (about 6 billion people) technically qualify as "refugees" because they have "less" than 1st world people. So why not simply move every single one to Europe and the United States? Following their line of logic, that's what should happen. After all, we "owe" them a "better life".