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What makes this special versus literally every other case in America? For example, there are people that have gotten away with driving drunk and killing people
by fzeroracer 8y ago
What makes this special versus literally every other case in America?
For example, there are people that have gotten away with driving drunk and killing people. Does that mean we've effectively legalized drunk driving? What kind of twisted logic is it that if we don't prosecute every single illegal immigrant to the absolute full extent that it results in open borders?
Why should people seeking asylum be treated worse than murderers and killers?
- koolba 8y agoThe crime isn’t seeking asylum. It’s entering the country illegally. The asylum part is irrelevant for anything beyond creating a sob story for marketing politically divisive messaging.
- noobermin 8y agoAsylum is not entering the country illegally, it has a legal process. It is not a non-sequitur, it is the topic under discussion.
- factsaresacred 8y agoAnd asylum is done at a port of entry, not sneaking through the desert.
- tomjakubowski 8y agoEven when it is done at a port of entry, you may be locked up for six months and have your one year-old son taken 1,500 miles away. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/migrant-seeking-asylum-says-his-toddler-was-taken-away-at-the-u-s-border https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/migrant-seeking-asylum-say...
- cr1895 8y agohttps://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/obtaining-asylum-united-states https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/ob... You may apply for asylum regardless of how you entered or your current status.
- burfog 8y agoSure, but there are essentially no legitimate claims in the USA because of the requirements for asylum: 1. You are being persecuted for something like religion or ethnicity. Poverty and ordinary gang violence doesn't count. 2. You must declare asylum in the first safe country you reach. Given that both Canada and Mexico are considered safe countries, it is extremely difficult to meet this requirement. You'd pretty much have to sneak onto an airplane without being caught.