1. It has a larger population than any other countries 2. It´s ruled by one of the cruelest, most suppressive regime in the world 3. It´s still a relatively poor, developing country with high economic inequality
Because it being difficult to legally enter the country runs counter to the narrative that illegals are criminals who refused to do things the right way, rather than desperate people unable to navigate an obtuse system by the legal means. After all, getting non-racists to side with racists requires framing racist ideas as logical things everyone should want. All while setting aside any and all extenuating circumstances or nuance to the situation.
Even better, the US should finally stop destabilizing countries left and right, and legalize the drugs that the cartels trade in (particularly cocaine and its derivatives). Do that and you'll see a drastic reduction in asylum seekers and refugees.
mr reality The US's constant intervention and destabilization of basically every country to our direct south for the past 100+ years, but especially in the past 30-40, is the main reason why there are so many refugees from those countries now.
*Most people forget that The U.S involvement in Central America during the 80s is what caused MOST of the instability in that region. During the Reagan years, CIA-sponsored government regimes in Nicaragua, Guatemala & El Salvador led to VERY costly wars. Government Death Squads were formed. Women were raped. Children were killed. Thousands of Innocent lives were victimized. Homes destroyed. Government agencies turned dysfunctional. Gangs formed. Levels of civil unrest increased (evident today). And all for what? To discourage communism?? Those countries are now in WORSE conditions (politically & economically) than they were BEFORE the wars. How dare we criticize or condemn these people for wanting to leave their homelands and come here as immigrants??? The hypocrisy is unreal.*
Can someone explain the Statement and Graphic at 0:21 to me? How is 924.000 Refugees since 2003 "more than anywhere in the world" when Germany has taken in way over a Million since 2015 alone? Honest question, am i missing Something?
The keyword that they use in the infograph is refugees that have been resettled. From the little reading that I've done, it doesn't count refugees that simply walked into a country and then went to the procedure to get asylum. Resettling refugees means that they apply from X country to get asylum in Y country. So the numbers they are showing are correct, but they skew the situation by ignoring the millions of refugees that have simply traveled to European countries and started their process there. Between 2003 and 2017 there have been around 5600000 +/- applications for asylums in Europe. On average 50% of those applications get denied, I don't believe it is counting those that will appeal the rejection, keep appealing the rejection to get an indefinite stay or those that decide to stay here illegally after being denied.
dkfsamurai ah k. Thx That means that just the voiceover is plain wrong. Because he Just says "taken in Refugees" and as you stated in that metric the US falls far behind Europe and Germany especially.
Everyone has an agenda n it's attention to detail like this that helps people understand that. Too bad most people r likely too busy attacking someone with a different opinion to check facts or even read comments like these.
Yeah, that's true. I do give them the benefit of the doubt, because they do explain how these refugees have to apply for another country to get in. It does get muddled again when they start talking about those choosing illegally passing border. A tiny bit more clarity on the terms would've made this a lot better, but that doesn't make a nearly a good clickbaity video.
It’s crazy how fast people can dehumanize other living, feeling people simply because they weren’t born from the same country. Guess not having a heart does that to ya.
@Jose Quezada, did you not just watch the video? It's not because these Hispanics are from a different country. They just showed that China has historically had more people APPLYING for immigration than any other country. Maybe you hear about how bad Chinese tourists are but have you ever heard someone complain about all the Chinese immigrants? No, the answer is no, you haven't.
Adrian Abella when you put kids in cages that's definitely "dehumanizing". Taking children from their parents without a way for them to reconnect with their parents is "dehumanizing". We have to get use to the fact that some people (YOU) were not born with empath, compassion or basic reasoning towards other races in their (YOUR) genetic makeup.
You're trying to make it out like Trump is the one doing all of this, the system has been like this for decades, my mom helped hundreds of people do asylum. Also, they're not mentioning that YOU CANNOT APPLY FOR ASYLUM BASED ON FINANCIAL REASONS.
My dood. Of course asylums been around for ever, the trump administration policies are tightening the availability of that service and making it harder to immigrate legally by decreasing acceptance limits at checkpoints. But even so they're not making trump look like anything lol. They're not inaccurate
How come the people who make directions for IKEA bunk beds can translate them into like 10 different languages but the asylum seeker forms are ONLY written in English?
Germany is one of the safest countries in the world but people say they feel less safe than ever. www.dw.com/en/germany-crime-rate-drops-but-fear-rises/a-43692277
Oussama Erraji: So what you're saying is, Vox is deliberately misleading us about who actually took in most refugees by leaving out countries that don't pass them on?
In case you missed more than 3 million refugees live in Turkey. And figures are very similar for Lebanon. I watch Vox for its objectivity and fact-based news, please don’t let it go just to “make a point”
king A developed? Jordan - 1.5 MM, Turkey - 3 MM. Look at the map again, it's only European or euro-colonial white countries. Many "developed countries" that are not white are not registered. The commentary said "the country is at a tipping point" with 900k resettled, hand picked, mostly educated class refugees. Uganda and Ethiopia have taken in millions each. Columbia has taken in a million from Venezuela this year alone. Hardly a "tipping point"...
Agtsmirnoff if they were only talking about settled refugees then why are they showing pictures of migrants, refugees and children in cages who walked across the border... Regardless, all 3 million in Turkey are settled. I work with those refugees in Turkey. They all now have government IDs, have work permits, and are receive integration support and education for children and are renting apartments. Settled. Only a tiny fraction are living in camps. Same goes for all the other countries I mentioned. No need to call anyone a moron.
AS A CONSERVATIVE LEANING MODERATE I WAS PREPARED TO COME INTO THIS VIDEO BEING PREACHED TO. I AM HAPPY TO SEE IT WAS A VERY INFORMATIVE VIDEO OF THE PROCESS ITSELF. TY VOX, LIKED.
America doesn't have the most refugees? if I am right Germany has accepted close to 1 million refugees last 5 years. Turkey has accepted well over 1 million. Lebanon as well. so to say that America has took more refugees than any other country is false
Daeric why do you believe that it’s not? Because the German Media doesn’t report it? I have friends and family that are living through the downfall of Germany as we speak. Angela Merkel is destroying the country.
At 0:24 You are saying that "America has taken more refugees than anywhere else in the world". But my country Turkey has taken more than 5 million syrian (3m children) refugees. And doesn't even shown on the map?
Im an ExMuslim girl living in a Muslim country Although i tried to hide my apostasy people around me in my School started doubting my belief and warning my best friend about me and hating on me.. shes all I have.. the teachers are also trying to ruin my reputation by calling her parents and spreading rumors about me and always kicking me out of class for no reason .. and its all because I took my hijab off. My father died four years ago and ive been experiencing domestic violence and psychological abuse since then by my brother and mother Right now every inch of my body is aching and I cant stop crying Im in my senior year of high school and I really hope ill leave this country before next year im just really lost and dont know where to start Please if you're living in the us/eu please help me by providing me with the information on how to get there It would save my life
If youre english is this good, you can find those info online yourself. But they are complicated n long, your need to do long detail research. I can explain most of them, but it will take awhile - You definite need to get hold of a good lawyer in that country n thats $5k-10k. - You can only apply asylum inside or on the border, usually it means getting a tourist visa there. I would suggest US as the best country to do it, followed by EU. What city in the US to apply is crucial, SF & NY is best, LA is good, TX is bad. Let me know if you like more help.. 😊
The did so by installing extremely corrupt puppet leaders, and then those puppet leaders were toppled by even worse rulers. I know this, as I am the son of refugees who fled to Canada after a brutal, American backed regime destroyed my parent's homeland.
I wanna know why it’s so difficult. I want them to reel into the system. Instead, they basically said there’s a lot of refugees and it’s hard because there’s a lot of points where the system ends up sending people home because they don’t have enough resources. That’s not enough! This video should have an extra 3 minutes to provide an anecdote or two
Yeesh this comment section though. This is why there are so many political tensions in America nowadays. Nobody seems to want to listen to the other side and what they believe and instead they insult each other with so many different buzzwords that are rapidly losing their meaning due to their overuse in uncalled for situations. If anybody would like to have a civil discussion here where we can talk out these problems calmly and maturely and try to change peoples opinions on this complex subject, reply to this comment. I really would like to be able to discuss politics with people in a nonviolent and civil way. Insulting people over their opinions isn’t going to change minds guys. All it does is tear us further apart from each other and it will make them much less likely to listen to what you have to say. Who’s with me here? Let’s make politics civil again!
Shad0whawk people only like to bash people who don't agree. They aren't looking for discussion to enlighten or improve their perspective, just force their logic on others. Good bye civilization
Ben Stankovich I may be adamant in my opinions on the subject, but I’m not going around insulting people for their political views (not saying you do this, just bringing up that many do). I believe what I do for this debate because my family knows the system firsthand and we know that there are many bad people using it to cheat the system. Maybe I am a bit strict about the debate, but that’s because my mother would receive death threats and threats of harm to her family almost every single day when she interviewed people for getting green cards and applying for asylum while she worked at INS and ICE. Not all of these people that are coming in are good people. Many are but we need to know that we’re not letting in the bad ones. That’s why the process is difficult.
My father and his entire family came here from that region several decades ago. My grandmother came here by herself leaving her husband and children behind for five years on a working Visa in order to gain the money necessary to get a lawyer to file the paperwork properly to become citizens of this country legally. Freedom is definitely not free, and it definitely has its price. But my family is proof that it can be done legally.
The system is very complicated, but it has to be. If everyone could go to the place they whish to live, the more prosperous regions of the world would collapse. This is because there is only a limited amount of work and other ressources. By expanding the population with wast amounts over a short period of time, one risks creating such a large demand for goods that the economy can't match. Also, it has to betaken into consideration that the welfare states of europe and (partially) the US would have to deal with the burden of handing out benefits to the newly arrived people, who (because of reasons explained above) will not give anything in return. This almost always leads to a rise in crime, because the newly arrived people want to make money and crime can provide that. The system is not what anybody would like to have from a humanitarian perspective, but the only solution that does not collapse our own system. All virtue-signalling whiny comments about morals and feelings can't change that. It's not like we don't want to help these people. We just can't.
TobiTabletop very well said. I live in canada and can't find a job if my life depended on it. why because we let in these people and only pay them half the wages while the government pays the other.
TobiTabletop so these immigrants are more ideal to hire than someone who has been here their whole lives and requires minimum wage. other wise we depend on the system just to scrape by...
Amanda Kardynal even if they are not hired immigrants pose a thread to the economy. Over here on Germany it is very hard for them to find jobs because Germans are preferred. If that happens they still get welfare bonuses which weakens the economy and prevents them from social interaction with natives, thus slowing down or even preventing integration. This leads to the formation of sub cultures who regularly spawn individuals that don't have the same free western values that we have in our countries (nicely put).
TobiTabletop I'm sorry but if an uneducated immigrant does a job better than you and for lower wage, you don't deserve that job. Its your fault that you're working a minimal wage job, not the government's. You can find highly demanded jobs in medicine, finance, salesmanship and IT. But sure, working at McDonald's is your American dream.
Here we are 2 years later & same ole thing happening ... I myself find it very creepy Biden was vice president & flew down to S.America to fix the migrant children problem. Now here we are again with him President & sending his vice president to S.America to once again fix the largest unoccupied child migrants coming over ever. Also, I watched something entirely of a different subject & learned Americas biggest underground base is in the same place as I heard them say migrants are being kept . Things that make ya go hmmmm. A few years ago I looked more into Biden & he just gets creepier by the minute !
so when they arrive do you check to see if the children are related to the parents and not being trafficked? do you find out if the parents are using the children as leverage to get in? do you find out whether the mother/father (if they arrive alone) took the children on this extremely dangerous journey against the wishes of the rest of the family? what do you do if any of these things are found to be true? separate them? illegal border crossing is called illegal for a reason, its considered a crime and what do we do with criminals? we put them in jail, but do you send a 5 year old to jail or do you separate?
Preach! It isn’t our responsibility to take care of these criminals. And before anyone calls me racist for this, they are criminals. Illegally crossing the border is (shockingly) illegal! Who would have guessed?
@@shad0whawk947 It's a misdemeanor. The United States has treaty -- the law of the land -- obligations to accept asylum seekers. Stop dehumanizing fellow human beings.
Unlike Japan, The United States does NOT have an official language, so yes you should absolutely be mind blown that these documents are only available in English. There is a reason that The United States is referred to as a "melting pot," and it's NOT because we all share the same culture, religion, ethnicity, and language as each other. Educate yourself before making ignorant comments on such sensitive subjects.
"In the last 15 years, America has taken more refugees than anywhere else in the world" "924,652" Wanna see Turkey with more than 5 million Syrian refugees since 2011. Your mind would blow up.
Legal points of entry is "LEGAL"? US laws do not say, "enter anywhere". What's the point of being an American Citizen to hand over earned tax dollars for non-citizens rather than to my schos, my community or needed federal programs? Proud to be an American Citizen coming as an child immigrant LEGALLY. It's already in the policy. It allows us to make sure to prevent criminals or disease be brought over.
Sure, the problem existed before, but the Trump party escalated it, and made a big deal of doing so. They even seemed proud of it. And the backlash came from both sides of the aisle. Trump wouldn't apologize for something only the Dems were mad about
No administration interpreted the act that Trump is using as grounds for separating families. Those presidencies you mentioned? None of them pursued that policy. But the Trump administration decided it was the right way to see things. If that is not escalation in your opinion, do please reevaluate your logical reasoning.
>Says asylum seekers could be denied due process, doesn't in any way explain how or why this is the case. Sure, ok then. I mean, saying that a shrinking percentage of cases are getting approved as the number of cases grow doesn't inherently mean anyone deserving asylum is denied it, nor that due process is not given. Huge leap to imply that falling off along the steps is being denied due process, when there is no proof of such.
It's really hard to get asylum when you are 1. Entering like 3 other countries to get the border when you can just stay in Mexico or Guatemala 2. Not actually being persecuted
How does ppl from another country can just stay in Mexico, that dont make sense. Being able to pass thru n live there legally forever is a diff thing..
It's important to remember that the source of the whole illegal immigration problem that the United States is facing is the longtime U.S. involvement in Latin America (especially in Central America) that has destabilized the region and prompted many to cross into the United States. While communism was one of the ways that the U.S. government has rationalized its interventions, the U.S. also intervened long before communism was even a concern for the government. Starting in 1823 with the Monroe Doctrine, the United States was essentially telling Europe that Latin America was its zone of influence now. Even then, the U.S. helped Europe invade parts of Latin America such as the Falklands, Mexico, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua. After that, U.S. intervention continued, to various levels, in the Mexican-American War, War of the Pacific, Venezuelan crisis of 1895, the Spanish-American War, the building of the Panama Canal, the Mexican Revolution, U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the Banana Wars in which the United States intervened in Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Colombia, all before communism was cited as a reason for intervention. U.S. intervention still continued with Operation PBSUCCESS, the Bay of Pigs invasion, Operation Power Pack, Operation Brother Sam, the 1973 Chile coup, Operation Condor, the Bolivian Cocaine Coup, support for the Contras, Guatemalan coup, Operation Charly, which was the brutal U.S. supported Argentine intervention in Central America, invasion of Panama, support for José Napoleón Duarte, the U.S. implementation of the War on Drugs, and many other CIA covert operations. The U.S. has also backed many brutal dictators and leaders who have terrible human rights records such as the Somozas, Maximilio Hernández, Rafael Trujillo, Batista, Pinochet, José Napoleón Duarte, Alvaro Uribe, Roberto Suazo Cordova, Manuel Noriega, Hugo Banzer, Efraín Ríos Montt, François Duvalier, Alberto Fujimori, and Manuel Odría, as well as many others in Latin America and the world. Thus, it is no surprise that the United States is having this illegal immigration problem as the United States' many interventions in Latin America, and specifically, for this issue, the United States' many interventions in Central America, have destabilized the region, prompting bad economies and conditions so bad that people are driven to believe that it is better to move and risk everything to embark on the dangerous journey to the United States, and once/if they arrive to face racism, discrimination, the separation of families, abuse, slave wages, deportation (and a return to those terrible circumstances that prompted them to leave), and conditions that citizens wouldn't have to endure.
Couple things VOX left out about the Northern Triangle. When seeking asylum you are suppose to go to a neighboring country... So lets take Honduras for example. A person seeking asylum is suppose to go to El Salvador, Guatemala or Nicaragua. This is not happening and many are bypassing those countries, traveling through Mexico to come to America. Thats 4 countries that a Honduras person could have tried to get asylum at before even reaching America. Next lets talk about the Times cover that they showed in the beginning of this video. That child was never separated from her mother and the father claims that she left him (and her 2 other children) and paid a coyote $6,000 to smuggle her to America. Had she applied to become a legal citizen it would take 3-5 years and would have cost 3,000 saving her family $3,000. Many of these asylum seekers are just trying to seek a better life which I complete understand. But there is a limit on the number of legal immigrants we take in for many reasons... economical, environmental and social. A large influx of people strains the economy, the healthcare system, hurts the environment, increases taxes, lowers the standard of living for all, increases crime, lowers wages and much more that is not talked about in this video.
Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Germany all of those countries have taken more than 6 Million refugees in between them, so 900K is not really much for the wealthiest place that ever existed...
Borders are for crushing people. When the situation in a region goes badly for whatever reason borders stand as a reason to not help. People could move away from a bad situation... except borders. We'd like to send aid... except borders. The ruling class in that area are really unfair to those others, we'd say or do something... except borders. Borders are a human construct. We've drawn some in logical places like oceans, rivers, mountain ranges. Most are entirely arbitrary like the 49th parallel. Some are obscenely perverse like Lesotho. Many ignore cultural ties like most borders in the Middle East and Africa, drawn by European colonialists. Borders are figments of national pride in an effort to remain legitimate in a world of global trade and internet. Multinational corporations largely ignore borders except when it comes to avoiding taxes. Internet is kept out at great expense (great firewall of China) and detriment to the nation. Borders inhibit humanitarianism. Borders are exploited for profit. It's time for borders to be thrown on the junk heap of history.
According to that last chart we’re taking in more than ever and just can’t handle the crazy increase. It showed that a few year years ago when the demand wasn’t so high almost everyone that applied got in
1. there are few reasons which justify illegally entering the country before processing an application (ex. fear of being murdered at the border). 2. if the application is only in english that should be changed, but not understanding the process is not a legitimate reason to illegally enter the country. 3. all judges evaluating asylum applicants should use strict procedures and no sympathy when making decisions, otherwise could mean a refugee's decision was emotionally driven rather than factually or with evidence. 4. non-violent crime and poverty should not be legitimate reasons to be granted asylum in america. there are plenty of hospitable countries in central and south america with lower crime rates and better employment opportunities than the northern triangle. america is not obligated to take in every refugee just because the quality of life might be better than in mexico. 5. those truthfully seeking asylum should receive due process, but it's unreasonable to provide due process to all applicants, especially seeing as due process is reserved for citizens. a more effective solution might be to improve the legal immigration system which could reduce the total number of asylum imposters.
Mrlegitbeans Permitting those who live in peace to be as free as you or I are. Congresses, presidents, prime ministers, parliaments, not parties are qualified to decide whom to admit, they are fatcats driven by political benefit and corruption. Let them find a home and life for themselves for who wish to come. If the politicians don't want them to come, perhaps they'd fix the problems they themselves create with the drug war and going to war without any plans, or supporting regimes that abuse people and limit their opportunities for growth for the benefit of companies domestically.
Three solutions in my mind, each with issues: 1) Continue or increase number of asylum being accepted 2) Directly intervene in these troubled areas to stabilise them and then aim to promote economic growth 3) Stop selling weapons and supporting oppressive regimes. legalise the drug trade to take it away from organised crime
So basically you need to be a good actor to convince them that you're in danger in your home country and if you're not a good actor they won't believe and you'll not get asylum. Hmmm..... Seems fair
Shad0whawk that is the most stupidest logic I have heard all day. You're saying human rights should be denied because they don't speak the same language as you. Disgusting.
Ropsana Khanom im not saying human rights should be denied for not speaking the language of a country. I’m saying that there are many other countries that speak their languages that are much closer and easier to be granted asylum in to. The reason that the documents are required to be in English is that the majority of the country only speaks English. It is much more fair for these people to go to a country where the majority of the population can understand what you’re saying. The majority of these countries speak Spanish, which is the first language for most of Mexico, a country that is quite safe for refugees to stay in, especially in the southern regions of the country.
English is not the official language of the United States, just de facto. Many migrants don't speak english and there's nothing stopping the US Government from providing documentation in spanish (The second most common language in the US) outside of purposeful obfuscation. If you agree with this tactic, that's your opinion. But it is most likely a decision made by the US Government to be purposefully difficult for migrants to apply for asylum and isn't bound by law.
It is very deceitful from VOX to say that the asylum seekers are being separated from their children during the Trump administration without mentioning that such policy was already in place during the Obama administration.
Because America is and should not be the world's refugee facilitation center. Immigration is not about kindness to welcome guests, it's something very political.
kiDkiDkiD12 your laws have too many flaws, not just this one but your laws on guns, child marriage etc all need to be revamped but your system is so broken that democracy is actually getting in the way of fixing these issues.
The country which has accepted most refugee is Turkey. You can easily find the information about it on the website of UNHCR. Turkey accpeted more than a million last year.
creative username no it doesn’t. It was a gift from France to represent friendship and democracy (a system that America has never been, but that’s besides the point)
The thing is the vast majority of these people aren't REALLY fleeing their countries because their life is in danger, so they are not refugees. I live in Phoenix and there are a ton of illegal immigrants here. They don't pay taxes, say things like "I don't need to learn English" don't show any respect for this country and just demand this and that... Im am sick and tired of it!
Citation needed, brah. Anecdotes don't count. And if we're using anecdotes, my time working in chinese restaurants exposed me to a lot of illegal immigrants, and they're all funny, easy going dudes who are busting their asses off to support their families back home.
Jojo Banks i meant employment taxes not when they buy stuff from the store. There many that are employed as contractors and are expected to pay for their taxes and of course they don't.
They don't pay income tax but they also don't get a lot of the benefits that come from those taxes. Things they do benefit from such as infrastructure spending is paid for through things like gas taxes that they do pay.
This is such a complicated. You can't just let everyone in because it puts a strain on the economy to take care of everyone who wants in. You also can have them come in because you need to get these people. But knowing the hard times people are going through makes it hard to not just bring them in.
In its drug policies and in its history of interference in Central American politics, the United States helped create a lot of the problems that have built to this increase in refugees and asylum-seekers. By decriminalizing drugs or taking dedicated steps toward helping people with drug problems, the US could have at least mitigated much of what is happening now. It turns out that these strangers knocking at the door have given many a perfect excuse to unleash racism and xenophobia that mostly had been kept below the surface of public life, and those who capitalize on these fears are also those least likely to do anything about the real causes of these migrants' flights from their homes. And it could become a cycle: The problems in Central America get worse, propelled partly by the worsening epidemic of drug addiction in America, and certain voters get increasingly scared of the increasingly desperate refugees and elect increasingly xenophobic and nationalistic politicians who claim no responsibility for anything but keeping the "infestation" away. It could become a cycle if people don't see what's happening and stand up against it.
Keros Blue Except that's the first thing people say to excuse the neglect of people, and then they excuse the horrid policies that increase the wealth gap, call those who do receive help lazy, and don't help those who they say should receive help. That's all that statement is. An excuse.
"You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." -Semi-sonic, "Closing Time". What would you say to the idea of dropping undesirable border crossers off on an island that will not be considered part of the United States where the only guarantee will be no weapons or narcotics and the only supplies provided are donations from the international compassionate community? This way Americans will pay less to operate it, no cultural assimilation will be required, Americans won't have to worry about unknown variables among themselves, victims will be in a place free of the potential for violence with manufactured weapons, there will be the opportunity for self-sufficiency, and people who criticize the US have access to donate and if they don't then we'll know they don't really care (they just like to complain). Maybe something cool like Australia will form. Maybe we could have an internationally and minimal governments-funded network of neutral, safe, isolated spaces.
Can someone explain to me why people from Latin American countries don’t try to seek asylum in Canada? I know it’s very far away so this might be a stupid question
Hi Jack Always race. Someone pulls the race card instead of pointing out wrong or right. Doesn’t have to be that it’s illegal, just the color of your skin.
When the Rajas of the Princely States were asked if they wanted to join India or Pakistan, two of them (that of Hyderabad and that of Jammu and Kashmir) replied: independent.
Yeah its so difficult that we have several hotels in my city housing people that havent even been granted asylum yet because there is no housing left. Must be real difficult.
When the Obama Administration ended the protection for Haitian Migrants back in 2016/2017 when they were on the verge of ENTERING (THE US LEGALLY via Tijuana, not illegally like these Central American Caravans), the Haitians didn't cause problems or ruckus. They simply took what Mexico offered them & have contributed greatly towards Mexico in the aspects of culture, society, & economics & intend to stay their. Most Haitians are bilingual & some are even trilingual & I know a few who speak four languages. They took the time out of their day to learn Spanish. I wonder how many of these migrants from Central American will take time to learn English? These Central Americans only use Mexico as a DUMPING GROUND & think they're too good by accepting Mexico's offer to enter the United States only to take advantage of the asylum laws that will allow them to fight their cases for the time being. It's worth nothing that roughly 4 out of every 5 migrants from Central America lose their case. The system is flawed & all prior administrations are to blame.
China has had most asylum applicants actually surprised me!
1. It has a larger population than any other countries
2. It´s ruled by one of the cruelest, most suppressive regime in the world
3. It´s still a relatively poor, developing country with high economic inequality
By the way, most of the asylum applicants from china are muslim minorities seeking for freedom of practicing their religion
Jena TH if that is true then its sad that Muslims are not seeking refuge in Muslim rich countries
historically that can range from 1000 bv. christ--> today 2018
Why do you think that is? Could it be Asian immigrants have this way of going under the radar?
Why are people disliking? This video is literally just explaining a system
Yung Raf Because of bigoted ignorance.
Sultan Ali whats wrong? The trump administration did split up children from thier parents
Anything related to America on this channel is disliked a lot.
Because obama did this in 2014. And no one cared.
Because it being difficult to legally enter the country runs counter to the narrative that illegals are criminals who refused to do things the right way, rather than desperate people unable to navigate an obtuse system by the legal means.
After all, getting non-racists to side with racists requires framing racist ideas as logical things everyone should want. All while setting aside any and all extenuating circumstances or nuance to the situation.
When a country is responsible for creating refugees, then it should also be responsible for taking care of them
what are you talking about the usa has taken in many refugees maybe you should house some refugess your self
mr reality because the us created those refugees
Even better, the US should finally stop destabilizing countries left and right, and legalize the drugs that the cartels trade in (particularly cocaine and its derivatives). Do that and you'll see a drastic reduction in asylum seekers and refugees.
Thanks, Obama.
mr reality The US's constant intervention and destabilization of basically every country to our direct south for the past 100+ years, but especially in the past 30-40, is the main reason why there are so many refugees from those countries now.
*Most people forget that The U.S involvement in Central America during the 80s is what caused MOST of the instability in that region. During the Reagan years, CIA-sponsored government regimes in Nicaragua, Guatemala & El Salvador led to VERY costly wars. Government Death Squads were formed. Women were raped. Children were killed. Thousands of Innocent lives were victimized. Homes destroyed. Government agencies turned dysfunctional. Gangs formed. Levels of civil unrest increased (evident today). And all for what? To discourage communism?? Those countries are now in WORSE conditions (politically & economically) than they were BEFORE the wars. How dare we criticize or condemn these people for wanting to leave their homelands and come here as immigrants??? The hypocrisy is unreal.*
Ricardo Perez 1/3 of Mexico and Central America in the U.S we’re not you’re dumping ground. They are economic migrants. America is full
Guess what there have been other countries that went through war. South Korea went to war with US backed military and somehow found a way to prosper.
Can someone explain the Statement and Graphic at 0:21 to me? How is 924.000 Refugees since 2003 "more than anywhere in the world" when Germany has taken in way over a Million since 2015 alone?
Honest question, am i missing Something?
The keyword that they use in the infograph is refugees that have been resettled.
From the little reading that I've done, it doesn't count refugees that simply walked into a country and then went to the procedure to get asylum.
Resettling refugees means that they apply from X country to get asylum in Y country.
So the numbers they are showing are correct, but they skew the situation by ignoring the millions of refugees that have simply traveled to European countries and started their process there.
Between 2003 and 2017 there have been around 5600000 +/- applications for asylums in Europe.
On average 50% of those applications get denied, I don't believe it is counting those that will appeal the rejection, keep appealing the rejection to get an indefinite stay or those that decide to stay here illegally after being denied.
dkfsamurai ah k. Thx
That means that just the voiceover is plain wrong. Because he Just says "taken in Refugees" and as you stated in that metric the US falls far behind Europe and Germany especially.
Everyone has an agenda n it's attention to detail like this that helps people understand that. Too bad most people r likely too busy attacking someone with a different opinion to check facts or even read comments like these.
Yeah, that's true. I do give them the benefit of the doubt, because they do explain how these refugees have to apply for another country to get in.
It does get muddled again when they start talking about those choosing illegally passing border.
A tiny bit more clarity on the terms would've made this a lot better, but that doesn't make a nearly a good clickbaity video.
Not only germany, Turkey 3 million, Lebanon 1,2 million
It’s crazy how fast people can dehumanize other living, feeling people simply because they weren’t born from the same country. Guess not having a heart does that to ya.
Jose Quezada it's the sad reality of this world :-(
@Jose Quezada, did you not just watch the video? It's not because these Hispanics are from a different country. They just showed that China has historically had more people APPLYING for immigration than any other country. Maybe you hear about how bad Chinese tourists are but have you ever heard someone complain about all the Chinese immigrants? No, the answer is no, you haven't.
obama put immigrant kids in cages. (2014)
Jose Quezada Like everything, this issue isn't black & white. There's more to it than "dehumanizing"
Adrian Abella when you put kids in cages that's definitely "dehumanizing". Taking children from their parents without a way for them to reconnect with their parents is "dehumanizing". We have to get use to the fact that some people (YOU) were not born with empath, compassion or basic reasoning towards other races in their (YOUR) genetic makeup.
You're trying to make it out like Trump is the one doing all of this, the system has been like this for decades, my mom helped hundreds of people do asylum.
Also, they're not mentioning that YOU CANNOT APPLY FOR ASYLUM BASED ON FINANCIAL REASONS.
My dood.
Of course asylums been around for ever, the trump administration policies are tightening the availability of that service and making it harder to immigrate legally by decreasing acceptance limits at checkpoints.
But even so they're not making trump look like anything lol. They're not inaccurate
How come the people who make directions for IKEA bunk beds can translate them into like 10 different languages but the asylum seeker forms are ONLY written in English?
HW because they have translators A n B they should learn English if they wana come to an English speaking country.
English is the language of the US. Let them learn to read and speak it.
@@NielNunya You should learn to write English instead of dictating that foreigners should speak it
- "We're from Honduras, seeking asylum in another country."
- US border patrol : "You're in Mexico, problem solved."
(From a Glenn Mccoy's cartoon)
Germany took 1 Mio in 2015.😂
Those stats only show countries where refugees are being resettled into, not the countries where they first settle for protection.
Yeah that’s really weird how they just forgot about that
*Violent crime committed by non-German citizens somehow rises*
Germany is one of the safest countries in the world but people say they feel less safe than ever.
www.dw.com/en/germany-crime-rate-drops-but-fear-rises/a-43692277
Oussama Erraji: So what you're saying is, Vox is deliberately misleading us about who actually took in most refugees by leaving out countries that don't pass them on?
Strict border policies are necessary to prevent over immigration, beyond what the US can handle at one time.
What like you paying for them
Agreed, but having a strong border doesn’t necessitate turning away asylum seekers
Thered be less refugees if uncle same wasnt subjugating south American countries
just admit that you're racist
In case you missed more than 3 million refugees live in Turkey. And figures are very similar for Lebanon. I watch Vox for its objectivity and fact-based news, please don’t let it go just to “make a point”
erkan balkan perhaps they where talking about the developed nations?
Man your deluded if you think vox is objective, they make quality content yes, but it's extremely biased.
king A developed? Jordan - 1.5 MM, Turkey - 3 MM.
Look at the map again, it's only European or euro-colonial white countries. Many "developed countries" that are not white are not registered.
The commentary said "the country is at a tipping point" with 900k resettled, hand picked, mostly educated class refugees.
Uganda and Ethiopia have taken in millions each. Columbia has taken in a million from Venezuela this year alone. Hardly a "tipping point"...
SETTLED refugees, living in a UN run camp in Turkey is not settled moron
Agtsmirnoff if they were only talking about settled refugees then why are they showing pictures of migrants, refugees and children in cages who walked across the border...
Regardless, all 3 million in Turkey are settled. I work with those refugees in Turkey. They all now have government IDs, have work permits, and are receive integration support and education for children and are renting apartments. Settled. Only a tiny fraction are living in camps. Same goes for all the other countries I mentioned.
No need to call anyone a moron.
Please turkey has 3.5 million to 2 million Syrian refugees alone I doubt america has that many refugees
avaneesh nagre look at the arab states its at nill
Omnipresent Baguette look at turkey it’s 2.3 million
@@monkofdarktimes why arabs is responsible if USA created the war?
We live in a society....
AS A CONSERVATIVE LEANING MODERATE I WAS PREPARED TO COME INTO THIS VIDEO BEING PREACHED TO. I AM HAPPY TO SEE IT WAS A VERY INFORMATIVE VIDEO OF THE PROCESS ITSELF. TY VOX, LIKED.
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WHY ARE WE YELLING!?!?!?
creative username WHY NOT?
xrx0R 9 FAIR ENOUGH
OBAMA PUT KIDS IN CAGES (2014)
America doesn't have the most refugees? if I am right Germany has accepted close to 1 million refugees last 5 years. Turkey has accepted well over 1 million. Lebanon as well. so to say that America has took more refugees than any other country is false
They are talking throughout time
More than 1 Million refugees came to Germany in 2015, even though Germany is *a lot* smaller than the US.
taavidude except that it's not.
Daeric why do you believe that it’s not? Because the German Media doesn’t report it? I have friends and family that are living through the downfall of Germany as we speak. Angela Merkel is destroying the country.
@@shad0whawk947
Ur right she's destroying ur country
Uh... 0:23 Those numbers are very wrong in the context they're talking about....
Are you telling me Vox would put out a misleading video?
Actually, the US is probably getting way fewer refugees in proportion to their population size.
I wonder why. It doesn't help their narrative.
Mc Ocelot you don't even need to do that, they are taking in less refugees, period.
Nice one
YOU CANT JUST DECIDE TO SEEK ASYLUM AND THEN WALK INTO THE COUNTRY!!!!!
At 0:24 You are saying that "America has taken more refugees than anywhere else in the world". But my country Turkey has taken more than 5 million syrian (3m children) refugees. And doesn't even shown on the map?
Im an ExMuslim girl living in a Muslim country
Although i tried to hide my apostasy people around me in my School started doubting my belief and warning my best friend about me and hating on me.. shes all I have.. the teachers are also trying to ruin my reputation by calling her parents and spreading rumors about me and always kicking me out of class for no reason .. and its all because I took my hijab off. My father died four years ago and ive been experiencing domestic violence and psychological abuse since then by my brother and mother
Right now every inch of my body is aching and I cant stop crying
Im in my senior year of high school and I really hope ill leave this country before next year im just really lost and dont know where to start
Please if you're living in the us/eu please help me by providing me with the information on how to get there
It would save my life
You can come to India.
If youre english is this good, you can find those info online yourself. But they are complicated n long, your need to do long detail research. I can explain most of them, but it will take awhile
- You definite need to get hold of a good lawyer in that country n thats $5k-10k.
- You can only apply asylum inside or on the border, usually it means getting a tourist visa there.
I would suggest US as the best country to do it, followed by EU. What city in the US to apply is crucial, SF & NY is best, LA is good, TX is bad. Let me know if you like more help.. 😊
It's difficult so that it doesn't become like Sweden/Germany.
Some people really need protection, shame on you
The United States is over crowded. (Period.)
Leave it.. period
America created the situation that is leading people to leave Latin America.
Most of Latin America, anyway (Chile is doing pretty well for itself, for example).
Peter Godmez excuses
yep blame america for everything!!!!
how so? I thought it all depended on natural resources and leadership but whatever lol
The did so by installing extremely corrupt puppet leaders, and then those puppet leaders were toppled by even worse rulers. I know this, as I am the son of refugees who fled to Canada after a brutal, American backed regime destroyed my parent's homeland.
I wanna know why it’s so difficult. I want them to reel into the system. Instead, they basically said there’s a lot of refugees and it’s hard because there’s a lot of points where the system ends up sending people home because they don’t have enough resources. That’s not enough! This video should have an extra 3 minutes to provide an anecdote or two
the short answer is racism
Yeesh this comment section though. This is why there are so many political tensions in America nowadays. Nobody seems to want to listen to the other side and what they believe and instead they insult each other with so many different buzzwords that are rapidly losing their meaning due to their overuse in uncalled for situations. If anybody would like to have a civil discussion here where we can talk out these problems calmly and maturely and try to change peoples opinions on this complex subject, reply to this comment. I really would like to be able to discuss politics with people in a nonviolent and civil way. Insulting people over their opinions isn’t going to change minds guys. All it does is tear us further apart from each other and it will make them much less likely to listen to what you have to say. Who’s with me here? Let’s make politics civil again!
Shad0whawk people only like to bash people who don't agree. They aren't looking for discussion to enlighten or improve their perspective, just force their logic on others. Good bye civilization
Sure, however in other conversations, you seem very inflexible in your opinions when faced with evidence, which strikes me as uncivil.
Ben Stankovich I may be adamant in my opinions on the subject, but I’m not going around insulting people for their political views (not saying you do this, just bringing up that many do). I believe what I do for this debate because my family knows the system firsthand and we know that there are many bad people using it to cheat the system. Maybe I am a bit strict about the debate, but that’s because my mother would receive death threats and threats of harm to her family almost every single day when she interviewed people for getting green cards and applying for asylum while she worked at INS and ICE. Not all of these people that are coming in are good people. Many are but we need to know that we’re not letting in the bad ones. That’s why the process is difficult.
Asylum isn't a right, it's a privilege.
Separating children from parents is a good deterrant.
Racist
Videos like this bring more awareness to people who don’t know much about it.
Africa has plenty of room, they should mosey on over there quickly.
how would they get there?
Separation of children is also applied by pres.obama administration. Why single out pres.trump, vox?
My father and his entire family came here from that region several decades ago. My grandmother came here by herself leaving her husband and children behind for five years on a working Visa in order to gain the money necessary to get a lawyer to file the paperwork properly to become citizens of this country legally. Freedom is definitely not free, and it definitely has its price. But my family is proof that it can be done legally.
Coming to America is hard because literally everyone wants to be an American citizen and we can’t let the entire world in
The system is very complicated, but it has to be. If everyone could go to the place they whish to live, the more prosperous regions of the world would collapse. This is because there is only a limited amount of work and other ressources. By expanding the population with wast amounts over a short period of time, one risks creating such a large demand for goods that the economy can't match. Also, it has to betaken into consideration that the welfare states of europe and (partially) the US would have to deal with the burden of handing out benefits to the newly arrived people, who (because of reasons explained above) will not give anything in return. This almost always leads to a rise in crime, because the newly arrived people want to make money and crime can provide that. The system is not what anybody would like to have from a humanitarian perspective, but the only solution that does not collapse our own system. All virtue-signalling whiny comments about morals and feelings can't change that. It's not like we don't want to help these people. We just can't.
TobiTabletop Preach man! These people don’t have an argument other than “but my feelings are hurt”. Feelings have no place in politics.
TobiTabletop very well said. I live in canada and can't find a job if my life depended on it. why because we let in these people and only pay them half the wages while the government pays the other.
TobiTabletop so these immigrants are more ideal to hire than someone who has been here their whole lives and requires minimum wage. other wise we depend on the system just to scrape by...
Amanda Kardynal even if they are not hired immigrants pose a thread to the economy. Over here on Germany it is very hard for them to find jobs because Germans are preferred. If that happens they still get welfare bonuses which weakens the economy and prevents them from social interaction with natives, thus slowing down or even preventing integration. This leads to the formation of sub cultures who regularly spawn individuals that don't have the same free western values that we have in our countries (nicely put).
TobiTabletop
I'm sorry but if an uneducated immigrant does a job better than you and for lower wage, you don't deserve that job.
Its your fault that you're working a minimal wage job, not the government's.
You can find highly demanded jobs in medicine, finance, salesmanship and IT.
But sure, working at McDonald's is your American dream.
Pakistan, Turkey, and Germany: Am I a joke to you?
3:16
It’s not trump administration policy-it’s been a policy for years and years before trump.
Here we are 2 years later & same ole thing happening ... I myself find it very creepy Biden was vice president & flew down to S.America to fix the migrant children problem. Now here we are again with him President & sending his vice president to S.America to once again fix the largest unoccupied child migrants coming over ever. Also, I watched something entirely of a different subject & learned Americas biggest underground base is in the same place as I heard them say migrants are being kept . Things that make ya go hmmmm. A few years ago I looked more into Biden & he just gets creepier by the minute !
so when they arrive do you check to see if the children are related to the parents and not being trafficked? do you find out if the parents are using the children as leverage to get in? do you find out whether the mother/father (if they arrive alone) took the children on this extremely dangerous journey against the wishes of the rest of the family? what do you do if any of these things are found to be true? separate them? illegal border crossing is called illegal for a reason, its considered a crime and what do we do with criminals? we put them in jail, but do you send a 5 year old to jail or do you separate?
also Obama has been doing this for years, this isn't a trump policy stop calling it one
Preach! It isn’t our responsibility to take care of these criminals. And before anyone calls me racist for this, they are criminals. Illegally crossing the border is (shockingly) illegal! Who would have guessed?
@@shad0whawk947 It's a misdemeanor.
The United States has treaty -- the law of the land -- obligations to accept asylum seekers.
Stop dehumanizing fellow human beings.
@@EthanolTailor
That has been fact checked to be a lie w/o context..
@@RedHanded1969 5 year old comment so context is entirely forgotten to me.
What was a lie?
So weird that when I lived in Japan, all the forms were in Japanese. Mind blown that ours would be in English.
Unlike Japan, The United States does NOT have an official language, so yes you should absolutely be mind blown that these documents are only available in English. There is a reason that The United States is referred to as a "melting pot," and it's NOT because we all share the same culture, religion, ethnicity, and language as each other. Educate yourself before making ignorant comments on such sensitive subjects.
"In the last 15 years, America has taken more refugees than anywhere else in the world"
"924,652"
Wanna see Turkey with more than 5 million Syrian refugees since 2011. Your mind would blow up.
Because
This Is America
Don't catch you slippin' up
Look what I'm whippin' up
Still you got to background check the person. We cant take all the cases
Legal points of entry is "LEGAL"? US laws do not say, "enter anywhere". What's the point of being an American Citizen to hand over earned tax dollars for non-citizens rather than to my schos, my community or needed federal programs? Proud to be an American Citizen coming as an child immigrant LEGALLY. It's already in the policy. It allows us to make sure to prevent criminals or disease be brought over.
Trump said he’s focusing on America. It’s about time the US stopped playing World police
Trump is a Russian pawn. Keep cheering while he dismantles the United States.
First 30 seconds and there is already inaccurate information -_-
Difficult??? It’s too easy.
If asylum is hard , than you have no idea how hard is to get a visa.
It’s difficult because of people coming with cases based on either domestic or gang violence which don’t qualify for asylum. The system is overloaded.
'Trump administration policy' lmao. This has been going on since president Bill Clinton. Educate yourself.
Never heard of "zero tolerance policy" b4 Trump
Thanh Ho Viet Exactly. Just because they lost and Trump is in the White House they bring it up right now. All of a sudden the children matter now
Sure, the problem existed before, but the Trump party escalated it, and made a big deal of doing so. They even seemed proud of it. And the backlash came from both sides of the aisle. Trump wouldn't apologize for something only the Dems were mad about
No administration interpreted the act that Trump is using as grounds for separating families. Those presidencies you mentioned? None of them pursued that policy. But the Trump administration decided it was the right way to see things. If that is not escalation in your opinion, do please reevaluate your logical reasoning.
@AortaHeart
At least Trump is putting them in air conditioned locations with beds and not in cages like Obama.
>Says asylum seekers could be denied due process, doesn't in any way explain how or why this is the case.
Sure, ok then.
I mean, saying that a shrinking percentage of cases are getting approved as the number of cases grow doesn't inherently mean anyone deserving asylum is denied it, nor that due process is not given. Huge leap to imply that falling off along the steps is being denied due process, when there is no proof of such.
They should have applied first in Mexico if they come from central America.
It's unfair America is rich with lots of opportunities and we are poor here with no opportunity why not go there where their is opportunity
It's really hard to get asylum when you are
1. Entering like 3 other countries to get the border when you can just stay in Mexico or Guatemala
2. Not actually being persecuted
Those countries aren't safe
How does ppl from another country can just stay in Mexico, that dont make sense. Being able to pass thru n live there legally forever is a diff thing..
The children are being separated due to things not shared in this video.
Matt smith riding nice lies they are trying to unite them
WHAT FUCKEN THINGS YOU TALKING ABOUT M8, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE???
Han Onyme what's the percentage of this happening?
@Han Onyme - unfortunately the Vox video was only going over things that are actually happening.
Han Onyme that just doesn't happen at the rate you imagine.
..half the world population want asylum .Can the US handle it?
0:20 Seriously? Turkey has taken 2.5 million refugees.
It's important to remember that the source of the whole illegal immigration problem that the United States is facing is the longtime U.S. involvement in Latin America (especially in Central America) that has destabilized the region and prompted many to cross into the United States. While communism was one of the ways that the U.S. government has rationalized its interventions, the U.S. also intervened long before communism was even a concern for the government.
Starting in 1823 with the Monroe Doctrine, the United States was essentially telling Europe that Latin America was its zone of influence now. Even then, the U.S. helped Europe invade parts of Latin America such as the Falklands, Mexico, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua. After that, U.S. intervention continued, to various levels, in the Mexican-American War, War of the Pacific, Venezuelan crisis of 1895, the Spanish-American War, the building of the Panama Canal, the Mexican Revolution, U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the Banana Wars in which the United States intervened in Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Colombia, all before communism was cited as a reason for intervention. U.S. intervention still continued with Operation PBSUCCESS, the Bay of Pigs invasion, Operation Power Pack, Operation Brother Sam, the 1973 Chile coup, Operation Condor, the Bolivian Cocaine Coup, support for the Contras, Guatemalan coup, Operation Charly, which was the brutal U.S. supported Argentine intervention in Central America, invasion of Panama, support for José Napoleón Duarte, the U.S. implementation of the War on Drugs, and many other CIA covert operations. The U.S. has also backed many brutal dictators and leaders who have terrible human rights records such as the Somozas, Maximilio Hernández, Rafael Trujillo, Batista, Pinochet, José Napoleón Duarte, Alvaro Uribe, Roberto Suazo Cordova, Manuel Noriega, Hugo Banzer, Efraín Ríos Montt, François Duvalier, Alberto Fujimori, and Manuel Odría, as well as many others in Latin America and the world.
Thus, it is no surprise that the United States is having this illegal immigration problem as the United States' many interventions in Latin America, and specifically, for this issue, the United States' many interventions in Central America, have destabilized the region, prompting bad economies and conditions so bad that people are driven to believe that it is better to move and risk everything to embark on the dangerous journey to the United States, and once/if they arrive to face racism, discrimination, the separation of families, abuse, slave wages, deportation (and a return to those terrible circumstances that prompted them to leave), and conditions that citizens wouldn't have to endure.
00:21 Turkey has roughly 2.5 million refugees alone. I expect much better reporting from Vox :/
Couple things VOX left out about the Northern Triangle. When seeking asylum you are suppose to go to a neighboring country... So lets take Honduras for example. A person seeking asylum is suppose to go to El Salvador, Guatemala or Nicaragua. This is not happening and many are bypassing those countries, traveling through Mexico to come to America. Thats 4 countries that a Honduras person could have tried to get asylum at before even reaching America.
Next lets talk about the Times cover that they showed in the beginning of this video. That child was never separated from her mother and the father claims that she left him (and her 2 other children) and paid a coyote $6,000 to smuggle her to America. Had she applied to become a legal citizen it would take 3-5 years and would have cost 3,000 saving her family $3,000. Many of these asylum seekers are just trying to seek a better life which I complete understand. But there is a limit on the number of legal immigrants we take in for many reasons... economical, environmental and social. A large influx of people strains the economy, the healthcare system, hurts the environment, increases taxes, lowers the standard of living for all, increases crime, lowers wages and much more that is not talked about in this video.
Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Germany all of those countries have taken more than 6 Million refugees in between them, so 900K is not really much for the wealthiest place that ever existed...
*You vs the guy she told you to worry about*
*Pew News* ...... *VOX Media*
Open borders for America and Israel
Borders are for crushing people.
When the situation in a region goes badly for whatever reason borders stand as a reason to not help. People could move away from a bad situation... except borders. We'd like to send aid... except borders. The ruling class in that area are really unfair to those others, we'd say or do something... except borders.
Borders are a human construct. We've drawn some in logical places like oceans, rivers, mountain ranges. Most are entirely arbitrary like the 49th parallel. Some are obscenely perverse like Lesotho. Many ignore cultural ties like most borders in the Middle East and Africa, drawn by European colonialists.
Borders are figments of national pride in an effort to remain legitimate in a world of global trade and internet. Multinational corporations largely ignore borders except when it comes to avoiding taxes. Internet is kept out at great expense (great firewall of China) and detriment to the nation.
Borders inhibit humanitarianism. Borders are exploited for profit. It's time for borders to be thrown on the junk heap of history.
Lenard Segnitz If you want to get involved in humanitarianism, join the Peace Corps. Not everyone wants to go ahead with your plan.
Aguila701 90 percent non-white since 1965 so no fix your country
According to that last chart we’re taking in more than ever and just can’t handle the crazy increase. It showed that a few year years ago when the demand wasn’t so high almost everyone that applied got in
1. there are few reasons which justify illegally entering the country before processing an application (ex. fear of being murdered at the border).
2. if the application is only in english that should be changed, but not understanding the process is not a legitimate reason to illegally enter the country.
3. all judges evaluating asylum applicants should use strict procedures and no sympathy when making decisions, otherwise could mean a refugee's decision was emotionally driven rather than factually or with evidence.
4. non-violent crime and poverty should not be legitimate reasons to be granted asylum in america. there are plenty of hospitable countries in central and south america with lower crime rates and better employment opportunities than the northern triangle. america is not obligated to take in every refugee just because the quality of life might be better than in mexico.
5. those truthfully seeking asylum should receive due process, but it's unreasonable to provide due process to all applicants, especially seeing as due process is reserved for citizens. a more effective solution might be to improve the legal immigration system which could reduce the total number of asylum imposters.
This is an excellent video giving a brief overview of a very complicated issue. Well done!
Ha , it will be easy to get asylum in America if you have a blue print of Tesla Coil ......the government Will let you come in immediately lol
Nope
Only if you have oil
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It’s not illegal to seek asylum!! My county of Australia, is appalling how humans are treated. Not in my name, not with my vote
Showing the whole USA and just some random countries in the EU is totally misleading.
Amazing how ALL reporting is "Believed" and media (false or truth) controls our emotions :o
Yikes. Out of curiosity what are some alternative potential solutions to this issue.
Mrlegitbeans Permitting those who live in peace to be as free as you or I are. Congresses, presidents, prime ministers, parliaments, not parties are qualified to decide whom to admit, they are fatcats driven by political benefit and corruption. Let them find a home and life for themselves for who wish to come. If the politicians don't want them to come, perhaps they'd fix the problems they themselves create with the drug war and going to war without any plans, or supporting regimes that abuse people and limit their opportunities for growth for the benefit of companies domestically.
Three solutions in my mind, each with issues:
1) Continue or increase number of asylum being accepted
2) Directly intervene in these troubled areas to stabilise them and then aim to promote economic growth
3) Stop selling weapons and supporting oppressive regimes. legalise the drug trade to take it away from organised crime
Cross the border legally to prove you have nothing to hide n r willing to follow the laws...
Open borders and abolish welfare
Kiki Mejia, good job name calling. Did it make you feel better?
So basically you need to be a good actor to convince them that you're in danger in your home country and if you're not a good actor they won't believe and you'll not get asylum.
Hmmm..... Seems fair
America would be the last place I would try to seek asylum. Especially as someone from South or Middle America.
OMG they need to fill in the forms in ENGLISH only. What a scandal. Why isn't the US administration fluent in Swahili?
IKR. If you’re coming to an English speaking country, you should be able to speak English.
Shad0whawk that is the most stupidest logic I have heard all day. You're saying human rights should be denied because they don't speak the same language as you. Disgusting.
Ropsana - "The most stupidest logic I have heard all day" - You might want to try google translate for future comments.
Ropsana Khanom im not saying human rights should be denied for not speaking the language of a country. I’m saying that there are many other countries that speak their languages that are much closer and easier to be granted asylum in to. The reason that the documents are required to be in English is that the majority of the country only speaks English. It is much more fair for these people to go to a country where the majority of the population can understand what you’re saying. The majority of these countries speak Spanish, which is the first language for most of Mexico, a country that is quite safe for refugees to stay in, especially in the southern regions of the country.
English is not the official language of the United States, just de facto. Many migrants don't speak english and there's nothing stopping the US Government from providing documentation in spanish (The second most common language in the US) outside of purposeful obfuscation.
If you agree with this tactic, that's your opinion. But it is most likely a decision made by the US Government to be purposefully difficult for migrants to apply for asylum and isn't bound by law.
Actually its not that hard compared to other Developed nations, Thats just a misconception
It is very deceitful from VOX to say that the asylum seekers are being separated from their children during the Trump administration without mentioning that such policy was already in place during the Obama administration.
Because America is and should not be the world's refugee facilitation center.
Immigration is not about kindness to welcome guests, it's something very political.
They got to respect our laws
kiDkiDkiD12 They do...
It's the laws failing them
Elisandro Cantu no they don’t
Adrian Martinez no they don’t
kiDkiDkiD12 your laws have too many flaws, not just this one but your laws on guns, child marriage etc all need to be revamped but your system is so broken that democracy is actually getting in the way of fixing these issues.
Damn.
The country which has accepted most refugee is Turkey. You can easily find the information about it on the website of UNHCR. Turkey accpeted more than a million last year.
America is not a day care for distressed people...
Occult the statue of liberty says otherwise
creative username no it doesn’t. It was a gift from France to represent friendship and democracy (a system that America has never been, but that’s besides the point)
@@shad0whawk947 Thank God for that! We are a republic of States , so yes you are right. Democracy =mad mob ruling over you.
The thing is the vast majority of these people aren't REALLY fleeing their countries because their life is in danger, so they are not refugees. I live in Phoenix and there are a ton of illegal immigrants here. They don't pay taxes, say things like "I don't need to learn English" don't show any respect for this country and just demand this and that... Im am sick and tired of it!
Citation needed, brah. Anecdotes don't count.
And if we're using anecdotes, my time working in chinese restaurants exposed me to a lot of illegal immigrants, and they're all funny, easy going dudes who are busting their asses off to support their families back home.
Undocumented people actually pay taxes though lmao.
Jojo Banks i meant employment taxes not when they buy stuff from the store. There many that are employed as contractors and are expected to pay for their taxes and of course they don't.
They don't pay income tax but they also don't get a lot of the benefits that come from those taxes. Things they do benefit from such as infrastructure spending is paid for through things like gas taxes that they do pay.
K G I mean my mother pays taxes but i don’t know which ones, we always owe money to IRS
Also many has to realize that Mexico has some really safe cities in Mexico and the could go to panama or Costa Rica
This is such a complicated. You can't just let everyone in because it puts a strain on the economy to take care of everyone who wants in. You also can have them come in because you need to get these people. But knowing the hard times people are going through makes it hard to not just bring them in.
In its drug policies and in its history of interference in Central American politics, the United States helped create a lot of the problems that have built to this increase in refugees and asylum-seekers. By decriminalizing drugs or taking dedicated steps toward helping people with drug problems, the US could have at least mitigated much of what is happening now. It turns out that these strangers knocking at the door have given many a perfect excuse to unleash racism and xenophobia that mostly had been kept below the surface of public life, and those who capitalize on these fears are also those least likely to do anything about the real causes of these migrants' flights from their homes. And it could become a cycle: The problems in Central America get worse, propelled partly by the worsening epidemic of drug addiction in America, and certain voters get increasingly scared of the increasingly desperate refugees and elect increasingly xenophobic and nationalistic politicians who claim no responsibility for anything but keeping the "infestation" away. It could become a cycle if people don't see what's happening and stand up against it.
I would let ppl get asylum when every american who is homeless, without a job and living in poverty is helped first.
Keros Blue why not both?
Homeless people are homeless for a reason. They don't even try to get a job and are junkies. Every county has them.
Rohith Kumar facts most could easily work but don't. There's plenty of work
Keros Blue how many homeless have you taken in so far??
Keros Blue Except that's the first thing people say to excuse the neglect of people, and then they excuse the horrid policies that increase the wealth gap, call those who do receive help lazy, and don't help those who they say should receive help. That's all that statement is. An excuse.
When you say 234% you make it sound like its a big increase. But its actually 2.34 times increase. Which is still big but 234% sounds exaggerated
Azeem Quadri its the technique of making something seem larger then its actual value.
Azeem Quadri it’s actually a 3.34 times increase
"You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." -Semi-sonic, "Closing Time". What would you say to the idea of dropping undesirable border crossers off on an island that will not be considered part of the United States where the only guarantee will be no weapons or narcotics and the only supplies provided are donations from the international compassionate community? This way Americans will pay less to operate it, no cultural assimilation will be required, Americans won't have to worry about unknown variables among themselves, victims will be in a place free of the potential for violence with manufactured weapons, there will be the opportunity for self-sufficiency, and people who criticize the US have access to donate and if they don't then we'll know they don't really care (they just like to complain). Maybe something cool like Australia will form. Maybe we could have an internationally and minimal governments-funded network of neutral, safe, isolated spaces.
America doesn't have enough resources to handle all the people seeking asylum. Period.
Hard? Get to other country lol... Canada maybe?
yes Vox
the pinnacle of authority concerning immigration affairs
please do tell us
Sorry, have we met, gentlemen?
Someone who is fleeing violence at their door doesn't exactly have the time to grab paperwork and that's the sad truth
That's the first thing you grab
Can someone explain to me why people from Latin American countries don’t try to seek asylum in Canada? I know it’s very far away so this might be a stupid question
Come here legally, it’s simple. My parents came from Liverpool in the 1960s. Legally. Do the same.
Coming for asylum is legal as well that's the point
Andrew J It's easier to migrate when you come from a white nation
Andrew J Gee no wonder it was so easy for them.
Andrew J, Please do tell them how to come legally.
Hi Jack Always race. Someone pulls the race card instead of pointing out wrong or right. Doesn’t have to be that it’s illegal, just the color of your skin.
Vox
Can you make a video explaining India's illegal occupation of Kashmir?
Superpower Dragon in your dreams Kashmir belongs to India !!
Did you mean India's, Pakistan's and China’s illegal occupations of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir?
When the Rajas of the Princely States were asked if they wanted to join India or Pakistan, two of them (that of Hyderabad and that of Jammu and Kashmir) replied: independent.
The Montenegrin Mapper but Kashmir came beging for help to India when Pakistan invaded them.
Superpower Dragon didn't you hear, 21.6% of asylum seekers are Chinese?
so, let's try on that persecution first.
Because we value our own safety
Yeah its so difficult that we have several hotels in my city housing people that havent even been granted asylum yet because there is no housing left.
Must be real difficult.
Non citizens should not get due process here if this is not the actual first country they come to after leaving their home country.
When the Obama Administration ended the protection for Haitian Migrants back in 2016/2017 when they were on the verge of ENTERING (THE US LEGALLY via Tijuana, not illegally like these Central American Caravans), the Haitians didn't cause problems or ruckus. They simply took what Mexico offered them & have contributed greatly towards Mexico in the aspects of culture, society, & economics & intend to stay their. Most Haitians are bilingual & some are even trilingual & I know a few who speak four languages. They took the time out of their day to learn Spanish. I wonder how many of these migrants from Central American will take time to learn English? These Central Americans only use Mexico as a DUMPING GROUND & think they're too good by accepting Mexico's offer to enter the United States only to take advantage of the asylum laws that will allow them to fight their cases for the time being. It's worth nothing that roughly 4 out of every 5 migrants from Central America lose their case. The system is flawed & all prior administrations are to blame.
For the OTHER side of this difficult issue, pls. see the NumbersUSA website.
We should worry about the people in our own country before we worry about people in different countries
According to the UNHCR, of the 14.4 million refugees of concern to the UNHCR around the world, less than one per cent are submitted for resettlement