Fact sheet on asylum is very useful; largest number
of ‘new’ Americans are Chinese, by Ann Corcoran, 9/21/18.
Total Asylum Grants by Country of Nationality, Fiscal Year
The percentage by country shows China 22%, El Salvador 11%, Guatemala 10%, Honduras 7%, Mexico 5%, Egypt 4%, Syria 4%, Iraq 3%, Nepal 2%, Ethiopia 2% and all other countries 30%.
A
couple of days ago I reported on
the Asylum process which is part of the Refugee Act of 1980. The
difference from the US Refugee Admissions Program is that these wannabe
‘refugees’ are already in the US usually illegally and they claim they will be
persecuted if returned home.
It
is a huge backlog of cases that is concerning the Trump Administration and is
why they say that a 30,000 cap on the refugees the UN/US State Department bring
in to the country is all we can handle. I assume they are expecting more
than the 20,000-30,000 asylum seekers who have been approved each year for the
last ten will grow with their stepped- up processing.
I
have no time to snip this Fact Sheet from
the American Immigration
Council on ‘Asylum
in the US,’ but you will find it answers many of your
questions.
Although
AIC is a non-profit legal advocacy group promoting more immigration, the facts
seem pretty straight forward.
Take
note of the definition of ‘refugee’ and see that they still pretty much stick
to the original definition that doesn’t include a lot of expansions.
Oh,
and for those who have asked, asylum seekers, who often wait years for an
asylum hearing (while free in America), are permitted to work after a certain
time.
What
I didn’t mention the other day was where most of the asylum seekers who are
approved come from.
2016. From the American Immigration Council
Fact Sheet
I’m
urging all of you to start paying attention to the tens of thousands of
‘refugees’ being approved as your new neighbors after they got in to the US
illegally, or came in on an approved visa and then asked for asylum.
The Boston Bombers got in through the asylum system.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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