Considerations in Granting an Illegal Immigrant Refugee Asylum The proper set of criteria in determining a grant of asylum to an illegal refugee boil down to a consideration of the refugees interests, including a careful determination of the threat to his or her life in the home country, and a consideration of the interests of the host country. Also, asylum does not need to be for life, but should look primarily to any change in the threat to the refugees life in his or her home country. When home country circumstances substantially reduce the threat to a refugees life, the refugee should return home unless 1) he wants to stay and 2) it is in the interests of the host country to keep that refugee in light of his or her contributions to the host country. Asylum should not be a system for lying to escape poverty. Host country interests should consider literacy, work history and habits, lack of a criminal record, stable employment, improvement and betterment of the refugee while in the host country, lack of being a burden on the social system and similar considerations that look to how well the refugee has fit in and advanced him or herself and the interests of the host country. For refugees who are children, the answers to these questions are much more difficult to assess and additional questions arise. Is there a real threat to the childs life or is a parent, if any, simply engaged in child abandonment to get a better life for the child. If the child has no parent in the home country, why, and are there relatives of the child? The matters for a child are much harder to assess and errors of judgment should favor the child. Our national discussion of dream children, general amnesty or conditions for any amnesty or the send them all home approach is much too simple minded and ill-considered.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:28:15 +0000
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