Posted on 01/22/2020 2:57:33 PM PST by yesthatjallen
The Trump administration plans to add Brazilian asylum-seekers to the list of those who must remain in Mexico while their immigration cases are adjudicated, BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday.
More than 55,000 asylum-seekers from nations other than Mexico have been forced to wait in the country under the White House's Migration Protection Protocols (MPP). The majority have been from other Spanish-speaking nations, though the policy has also affected Central Americans who speak predominantly indigenous languages.
Brazil’s national language is Portuguese.
“It is beyond nonsensical to force people who don’t speak Spanish to live in Mexico for an unknown period while they seek asylum,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy analyst at the American Immigration Council, told BuzzFeed News. “Staying safe in Mexico is already difficult for people in MPP, and Brazilian asylum-seekers will likely be at a heightened risk because they will be unable to access the limited services available to them due to language barriers. As a result, this decision will likely spur rejoicing in criminal cartels across the border.”
"I'd say it's discouraging we are placing non-Spanish speakers in a legally, economically, and physically challenging environment without support mechanisms or effective guidance,” an asylum officer told BuzzFeed.
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It's nonsensical for them to wait in a Spanish speaking country but it's ok for them to wait in an English speaking country?
Best post of the day!
Good grief. It’s not just thousands anymore. It’s exploded into bazillions!
I’d bet that the majority of Brazilians looking to get into America are dancing boys - in very high demand by an ageing gay population with fewer and fewer lifestyle recruits available to them in America as ‘gay’ falls out of fashion.
If they traveled on foot (I have a hard time imagining refugees flying commercial), they would have gone though a couple of Spanish speaking countries before hitting Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, not to mention hundreds of miles in Mexico itself. They managed pretty well so far.
What does extreme waxing of one’s naughty bits have to do with asylum seeking?
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Portuguese is close enough to Spanish that they can understand it. More so than English.
EXACTLY my thought.
What idiots we have in positions of power and authority in this country.
Brazilians?
Are they nuts?
I’d bet that the majority of Brazilians looking to get into America are dancing boys - in very high demand by an ageing gay population with fewer and fewer lifestyle recruits available to them in America as ‘gay’ falls out of fashion.
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I certainly hope it’s “falling out of fashion” but their man-boy love contingent continues to try to recruit new “members” and convince them that they are homosexuals. The media is, of course, complicit in those efforts.
Why in the Hell are Brazilians seeking asylum in the first place? Send their asses back to Brazil!!!
At home...
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