(hat tip seastay)
<><> PDJT, with cooperation from Mexico’s Nieto, has sprung a legal trap based on longstanding intl law.
<><> intl refugee law is the UN’s 1951 Refugee Convention, ratified by 145 UN member states including Mexico and US, administered by Geneva-based UNHCR.
<><> Article 27(1) established the concept of ‘country of first asylum’.
<><>It is the first country reached by a person seeking asylum status that meets two criteria: (a) that country has offered the person refugee status, and,
(b) that country also offers sufficient protection from the conditions causing the refugee to seek asylum.
<><> ergo, Mexico’s offer to provide caravan members with asylum, housing, schooling, and work means it IS the country of first asylum.
<><> also means automatic entitled to UN assistance from UNHCR (financial medical, tents or other housing, food-—none of which is directly on the US nickel).
<><> Refugees may also seek asylum in third countries, and the first country MAY allow this under Article 26(2)(a)
‘reassignment’ (especially if first country refugees prove burdensome), but ONLY IF the further move is safe from ‘refoulment’.
<><> ‘Refoulment’ is defined as a risk of a refugee being returned by third country to country of origin from which fled seeking asylum.
Time for the ‘squeaky toy gavel’ to come down.
“Racist motivation — cease and desist.”
They can’t be allowed here, not on US soil.
Refoulment = After ‘fouling’ the invading country, they are returned to sender to foul their home country.
...><> PDJT, with cooperation from Mexico’s Nieto, has sprung a legal trap based on longstanding intl law...
Here’s the US law.
8 U.S. Code § 1158(a)(2)(A) says that if a foreigner can reach a safe country after leaving their own country where they have a credible fear of persecution, then they cannot qualify for asylum in the United States unless the govt determines it to be in the interests of the U.S.A. to grant them asylum