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Remarkable_Landscape t1_izeeyd1 wrote

Reply to comment by nycdataviz in NYC shelter rules around childcare are making it hard for migrant moms to find work by exgalactic

Asylum seekers applying for legal status must do so within the US. They are following the law.

This needs repeating every time this topic comes up, I feel like we need a bot.

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reamsofmemes t1_j0t5va2 wrote

What also bears repeating is that asylum grant rates are very low, because the laws governing asylum are rather strict.

> An asylum claimant must demonstrate persecution based on one of the five protected grounds (race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion).

Poverty is not one of the grounds (nor is it the same as government persecution), so most of these people don't qualify. But they don't leave. In absentia removal orders continue to pile up, but they're unenforced because failed asylum seekers are not a current "enforcement priority" for ICE. And so, yes, this is actually illegal migration.

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