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Christoph Wachter: Well, Lesbos is one of the Greek islands close to Turkey, and during our stay, many asylum seekers arrived by boat on overcrowded dinghies, and after landing, they were left completely on their own.
Once in a new country, the first legal step for a displaced person is to apply for asylum.
At this point, they are an asylum seeker and not officially recognized as a refugee until the application has been accepted.
While countries by and large agree on one definition of refugee, every host country is responsible for examining all requests for asylum and deciding whether applicants can be granted the status of refugee.
We lament the existence of human smugglers, and yet we make that the only viable route to seek asylum in Europe.
In theory, refugees have a right to seek asylum.
It stems from a fundamental contradiction in Europe's asylum policy, which is the following: that in order to seek asylum in Europe, you have to arrive spontaneously by embarking on those dangerous journeys that I described.
If refugees were simply allowed to travel directly and seek asylum in Europe, we would avoid that, and there's a way of doing that through something called a humanitarian visa, that allows people to collect a visa at an embassy or a consulate in a neighboring country and then simply pay their own way through a ferry or a flight to Europe.
For example, in these attitudes in the United Kingdom, the public believed that levels of asylum were a greater proportion of immigration than they were, but they also believed the levels of educational migration were far lower as a proportion of overall migration than they actually are.
In June 1889, Vincent van Gogh painted the view just before sunrise from the window of his room at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where he'd admitted himself after mutilating his own ear in a psychotic episode.
After my college graduation, I applied for and was granted political asylum, based on being a member of a social group.
In the spring of 2018, the Trump administration announced a new policy at the US-Mexico border, a zero-tolerance policy, to forcibly separate all children from their parents, who were arriving at the border seeking asylum; children as young as 18 months, separated from their parents after a long and arduous journey to reach the US-Mexico border in search of safety and a new beginning.
They wouldn't have to come as asylum seekers to the borders of the United States of America.
And over the next few months, I would have three more relatives coming to Canada to apply for asylum with little more than the clothes on their back.
With thousands fleeing the United States to seek asylum in Canada over the past few years, we quickly saw what it looks like when there are more people who need help than there are resources to help them.
Albert was eventually confined to an asylum and forced to wear a dress for the rest of his life.
I started my career decades ago at the southern US border, working with Central American asylum seekers.
What's new is that recently, there's been a spike in families, children and families, showing up at checkpoints and presenting themselves to seek asylum.
And if you want absolutes, it's absolutely legal to seek asylum.
Another way that refugees come to this country is by seeking asylum.
An asylum seeker is simply somebody who's going through the process in the United States to prove that they meet the refugee definition.
And it's never been more difficult to seek asylum.
Our country, our government, has detained over 3,000 children, separating them from their parents' arms, as a deterrent from seeking asylum.
And we can absolutely have an asylum system that works.
For a tiny fraction of the cost of a wall, we could hire more judges, make sure asylum seekers have lawyers and commit to a humane asylum system.
This was taken under a homeless asylum built in 1885 to house 1,100 people.
So we prepared her for the process of turning herself over to CBP to ask for asylum.
Now, Anna didn't have a criminal record, and she followed the law when asking for asylum.
CBP officials held her for three more weeks before they sent her back to Mexico, where she is being forced to wait months for an asylum hearing in the United States.
And we tell people every day at the border, "If you seek asylum in the United States, you risk family separation, and you risk being detained indefinitely."
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