Under both Democratic & GOP administrations, the US has attacked the human right to live free from persecution & gain asylum from one's oppressors. The stories of asylum seekers need to be told!
Thanks for this powerful article, Jeff. Sadly, it's a situation we in the UK were already familiar with before Trump's second term began, having had to endure a Conservative government that had attempted to make it a crime to seek asylum in the UK. Such moves are, as you note, in contravention of the obligations towards refugees that our countries created in the wake of WWII, but more significantly they create a creeping normalization of racism and anti-immigrant sentiment that eats away at the kind of everyday decency that is so fundamental to any notion of a balanced society. Trump and Stephen Miller are taking the US to a very dark place.
Thanks, Andy! The racist aspect of the politics surrounding asylum is definitely a primary aspect of all the actions taken against asylum seekers, and migrants more generally! An entire article could easily be written about the abysmal situation of asylum seekers in the UK and throughout most of Europe.
It seems to me that, while Trump can be relied upon to be horribly and predictably racist whenever it suits those directing - or seeking to direct - his addled streams of toxic and barely sentient consciousness, it's Miller who has almost singlehandedly taken charge of the administration's insistent efforts to "purify" the US. The more he's exposed, the better, especially as he's the only one of the degenerates and dim sycophants in the administration who so clearly resembles an actual Nazi.
As for asylum in the UK, it's something I could do with finding the time to write about, especially as we face such a threat from our own bargain-basement far-right, in the form of the reptilian Nigel Farage and his malignant Reform Party.
If the US wasn't party or even initiator of so many wars no one would need asylum. the entire premise is wrong, just stop the wars. Its not "moral" to try to help the people you just bombed or starved, it is cynical. Personally i think no one is going to be better off in the US anyway going forward, in the future (and already) it will be Americans seeking asylum imo.
If the one-year filing rule wasn't an initially an "intentional barrier for trauma survivors", its continued existence certainly seems intentional enough. That's because attorneys, human rights groups, and even "expert witnesses" like myself have made it clear the rule is unfair and cruel.
Thanks for this powerful article, Jeff. Sadly, it's a situation we in the UK were already familiar with before Trump's second term began, having had to endure a Conservative government that had attempted to make it a crime to seek asylum in the UK. Such moves are, as you note, in contravention of the obligations towards refugees that our countries created in the wake of WWII, but more significantly they create a creeping normalization of racism and anti-immigrant sentiment that eats away at the kind of everyday decency that is so fundamental to any notion of a balanced society. Trump and Stephen Miller are taking the US to a very dark place.
Thanks, Andy! The racist aspect of the politics surrounding asylum is definitely a primary aspect of all the actions taken against asylum seekers, and migrants more generally! An entire article could easily be written about the abysmal situation of asylum seekers in the UK and throughout most of Europe.
Greg Sargent wrote a good article about Stephen Miller for The New Republic recently, Jeff, which I recommend if you haven't seen it - 'Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State': https://newrepublic.com/article/204191/stephen-miller-maga-terror-state-dark-plot
It seems to me that, while Trump can be relied upon to be horribly and predictably racist whenever it suits those directing - or seeking to direct - his addled streams of toxic and barely sentient consciousness, it's Miller who has almost singlehandedly taken charge of the administration's insistent efforts to "purify" the US. The more he's exposed, the better, especially as he's the only one of the degenerates and dim sycophants in the administration who so clearly resembles an actual Nazi.
As for asylum in the UK, it's something I could do with finding the time to write about, especially as we face such a threat from our own bargain-basement far-right, in the form of the reptilian Nigel Farage and his malignant Reform Party.
If the US wasn't party or even initiator of so many wars no one would need asylum. the entire premise is wrong, just stop the wars. Its not "moral" to try to help the people you just bombed or starved, it is cynical. Personally i think no one is going to be better off in the US anyway going forward, in the future (and already) it will be Americans seeking asylum imo.
If the one-year filing rule wasn't an initially an "intentional barrier for trauma survivors", its continued existence certainly seems intentional enough. That's because attorneys, human rights groups, and even "expert witnesses" like myself have made it clear the rule is unfair and cruel.