These Protesters in London



But, Mexico may not be a safe place for everyone fleeing persecution in other countries.

Certain groups of people — including the LGTBQ community, people with indigenous heritage, and foreigners in general — frequently report persecution in Mexico and seek asylum from Mexico itself. Some Central Americans report being followed by the gangs they fled back home through Mexico.

Organizations that monitor Mexico’s adherence to its own asylum laws have found human rights violations and failures by immigration officials to follow the process.

Asylum seekers are not obligated to ask for protection in the first country they enter that is not their own, said immigration attorney Tammy Lin.

“Many countries don’t have a system in place and don’t accept asylum seekers,” Lin said. “Most of the places — if we’re just talking Central Americans — that they’re coming up to don’t have a good system set up, and even if they did go that way, they hardly ever approve anyone.”

She has had clients from the Middle East who lived for periods of time in Jordan or Lebanon before seeking asylum in the U.S. They were able to request asylum here because they were never offered permanent status in those countries.

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There is no obligation under the refugee convention or any other instrument of international law that requires refugees to seek asylum in any particular country. There has, however, been a longstanding "first country of asylum" principle in international law by which countries are expected to take refugees fleeing from persecution in a neighbouring state. This principle has developed so that, in practice, an asylum seeker who had the opportunity to claim asylum in another country is liable to be returned there in order for his or her claim to be determined.
 
There is no obligation under the refugee convention or any other instrument of international law that requires refugees to seek asylum in any particular country. There has, however, been a longstanding "first country of asylum" principle in international law by which countries are expected to take refugees fleeing from persecution in a neighbouring state. This principle has developed so that, in practice, an asylum seeker who had the opportunity to claim asylum in another country is liable to be returned there in order for his or her claim to be determined.
So simple question: why doesn’t the Trump administration just return the asylum seekers back to their first country?
 
30k apparently crowd funded for that Trump balloon..... Where did all the money go as no way does that balloon cost £30000

The BBC won't miss the money as it's been headlining on every news broadcast for a week. Nowt else about the visit. Just the balloon. They had to pull back from the "soaring over the Houses of Parliament" to "hovering just above ground level" though.
 

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