About two months after nine DREAMers either left the country voluntarily or were deported then tried to cross the border to protest U.S. immigration laws, 30 others will make the same attempt next Monday, an immigration advocacy group said. The National Immigrant Youth Alliance, which coordinated the summer crossing in which the so-called DREAM9 asked for political asylum, said in a press release that 29 people from Mexico and one from Peru will seek to enter the United States. “Obviously this is theater and they’re looking to make further mockery of U.S. immigration laws,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which pushes for strict immigration policies. “They’re going back to a country they say they’re being persecuted in only to request political asylum. They’re taking something from U.S. immigration policy – political asylum -- that is reserved for humanitarian purposes and using it to create some kind of street theater for their own political agenda.”
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 04:38:47 +0000
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