Migrants
looking for economic opportunity and running from gangs/violence are
NOT refugees, by Ann Corcoran 11/25/16
Immigration activists are urging Obama to release them all before
January 20th! They are surging north by the tens of thousands since Trump
won the Presidential election on November 8th. See news at Drudge yesterday, here. And it isn’t just Mexicans and Central
Americans, as Pamela Geller told us here two
days ago, that want to get in to America before Donald Trump is inaugurated.
Next time you hear the Left whining
about Jeff Sessions, Kris Kobach and Steve Bannon remember that President
Barack Obama had Cecilia Muñoz (La Raza), and senior White House adviser
Valerie Jarrett by his side for nearly 8 years working day and night to change
US immigration policy and seed your towns with diversity. Now the pendulum
swings back!
Most are NOT REFUGEES! although
most will be requesting asylum (and most are being cared for on the taxpayer’s
dime).
While we focus so much energy on the
UN/US Refugee Admissions Program, the asylum portion of the Refugee Act of 1980 is going
berserk! The Open Borders activists have latched on to it in order to
make up for the numbers they might lose
in the normal refugee program. I mentioned it recently when I wrote about Doris Meissner.
In the normal process we write about
all the time, refugees are selected abroad and flown here on your dime (they
are supposed to repay the airfare, but no one, outside the government, knows
how much they do repay).
With asylum seekers, they get here
on their own either by crossing the border illegally or illegally overstaying a
visa and then requesting asylum, which is supposed to offer protection from
PERSECUTION.
In either case legitimate “refugees”
must prove that they fear persecution if returned home, according the 1951 Convention on refugees….
Article 1 of the Convention, as
amended by the 1967 Protocol, defines a refugee as this: “A person who owing to a well-founded fear
of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a
particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his
nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself
of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being
outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such
events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it..”
What has been happening is that the
definition is being expanded (really by the Open Borders lobby and their media
mouthpieces) beyond
the idea of persecution to include anyone who is running from anything that
makes them unhappy! Bloomberg: Let all asylum-seekers go free before January 20th:
Now, back to the article that caught my
eye a few days ago at Bloomberg (where
else!): Obama being urged to let all asylum-seekers go free. But, remember!
most of the tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children who entered the
US illegally are already free to roam America!
Immigration advocates are asking the Obama administration to release
thousands of detained Central American women and children who want asylum in
the U.S., citing concerns that Donald Trump will deport them after his
inauguration in January.
Representatives of groups including
the Women’s Refugee Commission and the American Immigration Lawyers Association
met with White House officials last week to discuss a host of immigration
issues, including the fate of about 4,000 Central American detainees, some as
young as two years old, who have fled violence in their home countries. They’re
housed in jail-like facilities in Texas and Pennsylvania, some for more than a
year, as they wait for the government to process their asylum pleas.
Immigration advocates want the president to either end the practice of
detaining families altogether, as they’ve been requesting for years, or direct
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to release families with a notice
to appear before a judge on their own recognizance.
They are NOT refugees! But, see here
below, that the media calls them that already. In order to be a refugee they
must make an asylum claim and be granted asylum! In most states they are
not eligible for welfare until the asylum claim has been approved.
The plight of the Central American refugees, who fled violence and gangs in their home countries, is
one of several 11th-hour immigration conundrums Obama faces as he prepares for
Trump to enter the White House. The Republican campaigned on promises to crack
down on undocumented immigrants and to build a wall on the Mexican border, and
immigration advocates fear a government that has struggled under Obama to
humanely handle a crush of asylum-seekers at the southern border will turn
markedly more hostile under his successor.
More here if you care to read it!
The vast majority of so-called
‘refugees’ invading Europe now are claiming asylum and are not legitimate
refugees, and shouldn’t be referred to as ‘refugees’ until their claims have
been approved.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/migrants-looking-for-economic-opportunity-and-running-from-gangsviolence-are-not-refugees/
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