These aren't people fleeing genocide. These are people leaving Mexico. And they're being put in hotels and buses.
It's easy to pretend you're fellow Americans are monsters, but they're not.
It's easy to pretend you're fellow Americans are monsters, but they're not.
No, they are people fleeing violence in Central America through Mexico, in large part.
That violence, incidentally, is in substantial part resulting from the US training nonviolent drug war criminals into extremely violent criminals in its original and then deporting then to Central America what they have no substantial roots.
If you are passing through one country because you desire to get to a specific destination, you are basically asylum shopping.
Even nativist politicians making incorrect claims about the law here tend to claim it requires efforts to seek asylum in the first safe country, which even if true would, in fact, fully take into account the problem of an intervening country that shared the same problem being fled from in the country of nationality or habitual residence. See, e.g., referring to this claim:
https://fullfact.org/immigration/refugees-first-safe-country...
> These aren't people fleeing genocide.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
You as an American should not go there, but them fleeing here is problematic?
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/asylum-or-refugee-st...