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Monday, August 17, 2015

Washington Post: Say, Could Black People Qualify As Refugees?

This is something that Raha Jorjani wonders in the opinion pages of the Washington Post. It should be noted that Jorjani is an “immigration lawyer”, who quite often represents those who came to this country illegally.

Suppose a client walked into my office and told me that police officers in his country had choked a man to death over a petty crime. Suppose he said police fatally shot another man in the back as he ran away. That they arrested a woman during a traffic stop and placed her in jail, where she died three days later. That a 12-year-old boy in his country was shot and killed by the police as he played in the park.

Suppose he told me that all of those victims were from the same ethnic community — a community whose members fear being harmed, tortured or killed by police or prison guards. And that this is true in cities and towns across his nation. At that point, as an immigration lawyer, I’d tell him he had a strong claim for asylum protection under U.S. law.

What if, next, he told me he was from America? Black people in the United States face such racial violence that they could qualify as refugees.

That’s an interesting thought: Black people needing asylum from the deplorable conditions that mostly occur in Democratic Party run cities around the country. Why are Democrats treating Black people with such disregard and violence?

According to U.S. asylum law, that persecution must be on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion. In many cases, courts have said that violence by police officers, unjust imprisonment, rape, assault, beatings and confinement constitute persecution. Even nonphysical forms of harm, such as the deliberate imposition of severe economic disadvantage, psychological harm, or the deprivation of food, housing, employment or other essentials, help make the case. In one instance, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that an individual who had been arrested, held for three days and then falsely accused of a crime had been persecuted. In another case, it ruled that persecution included ethnic discrimination so severe that the petitioner was unable to find a job in his chosen field.

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7 comments:

  1. OK, so than lets deport the refugges to a special camp!

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  2. These so called Democrat run city officials are nothing but a bunch of Republican who convince the voter than they we're indeed democrats

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  3. refugees from what? themselves?

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  4. The international definition of refugee requires the person to be displaced from the country of their nationality or habitual residence. This is really basic refugee law here.

    If they want to slip into Canada or Mexico, they are welcome to try it.

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  5. No just stop taking of them. Make them work and earn what they want. Yes, some will rob but most will stand up. I pray. It's been made to easy for them (all races)to just think this is all they are worth. map

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  6. I think it is an excellent idea. If they are so oppressed and persecuted here, then by all means, flee to "refuge" elsewhere.

    If they can find anyplace else that will take them.

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