ABClatino Magazine Year 6 Issue 5 | Page 17

Most U.S. citizens don’t know that there is a separate (unofficial) immigration system for Latinos. The U.S. government would never admit it, but a close look at the processing of immigration cases of Latino immigrants shows how they are treated differently.

Many immigrants who fear persecution in non-Latino nations get to be processed outside the U.S. as refugees, thereby entering legally. However, almost no Latino who fears persecution in their home country is eligible to be considered for refugee status outside the United States. The Ukrainians only two months after the horrible attack by Putin’s Russians are being processed for some form of refugee status based on humanitarian asylum, while many Latinos who have been persecuted for years due to the actions or inactions of their home country are not granted a similar status. Central American governments have assisted gangs and cartels to persecute innocent people for years, without the persecuted getting refugee status. The Ecuadoran government and the Chinese persecute indigenous people in Ecuador due to their ethnicity, race, social group and indigenous nationality, but a blanket refugee status is not available to them.

Many American citizens think Latino asylum seekers are illegally entering the U.S. when they legally request asylum at the border because that is the way that the U.S. government and the press want to present their plight. Latinos seek asylum at the border because the U.S. does not provide refugee camps for them. The granting of refugee status for 100,000 Ukrainian people has never been similarly done for Latinos.

 

 

Por / By Robert Fuchs, Esq.

WHY IS THERE A SEPARATE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

FOR LATINOS?

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