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It's not that uncommon. > Many of the migrants are asylum seekers fleeing political violence in their countries of origin, especially Congo and Cameroon. Many

It's not that uncommon. > Many of the migrants are asylum seekers fleeing political violence in their countries of origin, especially Congo and Cameroon. Many of the Congolese lived for years in Angola, where they learned enough Portuguese to get by in Spanish. Angola last year expelled more than 300,000 Congolese refugees. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/hundreds-of-africans-tried-to-reach-the-united-states-now-theyre-stuck-in-mexico/2019/04/16/6ebb7b48-5fa4-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/hundreds-o...

mc32 8y ago
Angola is one of the up and coming countries in Africa. That people are leaving it indicates it’s more an economic calculus than persecution.
- roywiggins 8y ago
  > The destruction in Kapende, where no house remains occupied or intact, marked the culmination of three days of violence in Lucapa, a sprawling mining town in the northeast surrounded by some of the world’s richest diamond fields. > About 300,000 Congolese have fled Angola in the last few weeks, many of them in response to the violence in Lucapa at the beginning of October. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-angola-drc-violence-insight/three-days-of-violence-that-emptied-an-angolan-town-of-congolese-idUSKCN1MZ1UI https://www.reuters.com/article/us-angola-drc-violence-insig...
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Angola is one of the up and coming countries in Africa. That people are leaving it indicates it’s more an economic calculus than persecution The US was the up-and-coming nation of the Western hemisphere for a long time while engaging in systematic persecution of blacks, Native Americans, and, at various times and places, other groups. Aggregate economic development and systematic persecution of selected groups which justifies flight in reasonable fear aren't mutually incompatible.

mc32 8y ago

Angola is one of the up and coming countries in Africa. That people are leaving it indicates it’s more an economic calculus than persecution.

roywiggins 8y ago
> The destruction in Kapende, where no house remains occupied or intact, marked the culmination of three days of violence in Lucapa, a sprawling mining town in the northeast surrounded by some of the world’s richest diamond fields. > About 300,000 Congolese have fled Angola in the last few weeks, many of them in response to the violence in Lucapa at the beginning of October. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-angola-drc-violence-insight/three-days-of-violence-that-emptied-an-angolan-town-of-congolese-idUSKCN1MZ1UI https://www.reuters.com/article/us-angola-drc-violence-insig...
dragonwriter 8y ago
> Angola is one of the up and coming countries in Africa. That people are leaving it indicates it’s more an economic calculus than persecution The US was the up-and-coming nation of the Western hemisphere for a long time while engaging in systematic persecution of blacks, Native Americans, and, at various times and places, other groups. Aggregate economic development and systematic persecution of selected groups which justifies flight in reasonable fear aren't mutually incompatible.