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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do they need asylum from Ecuador?[/quote]

Walking through eight countries to make a fake asylum claim here is not "legal entry" in any conventional or real sense of this term. If some apparat's stroke of a pen once made this the rule, another's eraser can immediately restore sanity.

If you’re fleeing real danger, why not claim asylum in any of these earlier countries:

•  Colombia (first big one after Ecuador, then the dangerous Darién Gap jungle crossing into Panama)
•  Panama
•  Costa Rica
•  Nicaragua
•  Honduras
•  El Salvador (sometimes skipped depending on the path)
•  Guatemala
•  Mexico (the last one before the US border—biggest stretch, buses/trains, lots of risks but stable overall)

Those countries are legally “safe” for asylum claims.  If you’re running from real persecution, you stop and ask for protection there.
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Your list does not make the brilliant point you think you are making. Thinking you will be safer in the US than in other Latin American in no way invalidates an asylum claim.[/quote]

Your counterpoint is also not brilliant.  Not to mention, ironically, the U.S. is not safer than several of the countries - many outperforming us on gun safety, maternal and infant mortality, life expectancy, etc.etc.  Additionally, have you not seen the statistics how many asylum seekers *fly* to Mexico from all over the world to walk across (recent decades phenomenon)?  Don’t you think this showcases how easy it is to claim asylum when you walk (or drive) across (plus you get all benefits immediately; work, school, medical, etc), but how cumbersome, lengthy, and impossible it is to start a legal claim from outside the U.S.?  The current system is a mess.

Asylum claims based on “where the emigrant thinks they will be safer”  basically means; if you fear for your life, you get free unlimited migration to anywhere in the world. This is certainly *not* the law in most countries in regard to how asylum claims are viewed, many do expect processing from the first neighboring safe country.  Many countries have overhauled what it means to claim asylum, and what criteria need to be fulfilled.  I think this needs to happen in the U.S. as well. And legal immigration needs to be encouraged by due process, abiding by rules, and processing decisions 10x faster, at least.  And then a “no” can be a “no”, too, like in other countries, and a “yes” means you can start your new life without years or decades(!) in limbo. [/quote]

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