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Refugee status is not exclusively about war.
(42) The term “refugee” means
(A) any person who is outside any country of such person’s nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, or
(B) in such special circumstances as the President after appropriate consultation (as defined in section 1157 (e) of this title) may specify, any person who is within the country of such person’s nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, within the country in which such person is habitually residing, and who is persecuted or who has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. The term “refugee” does not include any person who ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. For purposes of determinations under this chapter, a person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo involuntary sterilization, or who has been persecuted for failure or refusal to undergo such a procedure or for other resistance to a coercive population control program, shall be deemed to have been persecuted on account of political opinion, and a person who has a well founded fear that he or she will be forced to undergo such a procedure or subject to persecution for such failure, refusal, or resistance shall be deemed to have a well founded fear of persecution on account of political opinion.
8 U.S. Code § 1101 - Definitions | LII / Legal Information Institute
That's not relevant. You don't apply for asylum before leaving your home country. You flee and then request asylum.
Incorrect. US law -- not the whims of pissed-off conservatives -- dictates how applications for asylum are handled. If they were not following the correct process, they would be handled differently.
Then I guess Reagan, Bush 41 and 43 were also "bad Presidents."
Yes in that regards they were bad. They allowed and continue to allow illegal immigrents to enter this country. The amnesty bill that reagan signed was suppose to be the last and our borders secured. So far every president has failed to protect this country from illegal immigration.
Someone said war i said there is no war and just because there is violence in an area is not a good enough reason for refugee status.
they are illegal there are already rules in place for dealing with them they are booked and sent back to their country of origin. as stated the reason they are coming here is not due to violence or war. it is due to the fact that their parents think they will get amnesty from the president that is the exact reason.
that is not a valid reason. it is an illegal reason.
as i stated before if you and people like you want them here then we will send them to your home and you can foot the bill to take care of them. put your money where your mouth is. i want no part and if it was up to me they would be filed out and sent back to where they came from and their home country billed for the resources used to do it.