They have a financial interest in selling tickets to those passengers. Airlines have a legal obligation as common carriers to transport all would-be passengers. That’s why they end up trying to reach places of sanctuary by “irregular” means of transport, and drowning or dying of thirst in the desert.Īirlines should be helping migrants. Most migrants never even try to travel by airline to a place where they could present their asylum claim, because they know that they will be turned away at the ticket counter or boarding gate. Instead, they are denied before they get on a plane, by airline staff who have no training or competence to act as asylum judges. That’s why most migrants’ asylum claims are never “adjudicated”. And the US and the European Union work hard to prevent migrants from ever reaching a US or EU border or airport where they might make such a plea. You have to show up at the border or arrive at a destination airport before you can beg for asylum. You can’t apply for asylum in advance, the way you apply for a visa. International treaties and US law only allow migrants to make asylum claims after they reach a destination country. It’s because the government at their destination won’t let them buy a plane ticket or board a flight to a place of safety!
It’s not because migrants can’t afford plane tickets. These new rules won’t help most asylum seekers.ĭid you ever wonder why desperate asylum seekers often travel on overcrowded and leaky boats or try to trek across waterless deserts, and regularly lose their lives? The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new interim rules today for the adjudication of asylum and other claims by a new class of “ asylum officers” at US ports of entry, borders crossings, and airports.
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