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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: abuelita who wrote (79230)6/23/2018 5:40:14 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 362604
 
...well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group...
under the above definition i believe the central american
people seeking asylum in the u.s. are refugees.

I have not been paying close attention but the reasons I've heard re the current asylum seeking have been about unremitting violence by gangs or abusive husbands. That violence is not being conducted by the state although the state may not be providing adequate protection against it. This fear is not the same thing as fear of state-sponsored genocide or abuse of dissidents, which is what I thought was intended and which seems supported by the definition you provided.

Which is why I asked. By your criteria, as I infer them, moms with kids in Chicago could claim refugee status in Canada or, even better, Japan or Iceland, which are all but free of such violence. By those criteria, maybe a billion people could claim refugee status. Asylum claims effectively make the problem back home the receiving state's burden so it would seem to me that the threshold should be more strenuous.
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