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>>Almost every Chinese Uber driver I met in SF are under political asylum

USA hands asylum like candy (overworked courts?) but honestly, if 5% of what we read is true, the Chinese deserve it.

I recently read a non-fiction book, Patriot Number One about this. The main subject of the story pretty clearly deserved asylum but it goes into detail about how people who weren't really persecuted go about getting asylum as well. Really interesting story about small-town Chinese politics and different ways people immigrate.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35575186-patriot-number-...

That makes a lot of sense. I always wondered what they considered the point of it to be, given that China doesn't care much about the West's opinion of them anyway.