Closing out 2024 with the most transformational trend of the year: immigration.
“Chinese Muslims, After Finding a Refuge in Queens, Now Fear Trump” (New York Times, today):
Then they managed to get out of China and reached the soil of the United States, many by trekking through the brutal jungle in Panama known as the Darién Gap on their way to the U.S. southern border.
They are Hui Muslims, a state-recognized ethnic minority group in China, where the government is determined to crack down on Islam.
Deportation could mean years in jail or labor camps.
Of the roughly 25 million Muslims in China, 11 million are Hui…
Most Chinese migrants entering the United States from the southern border are released on parole by immigration authorities. Then they can apply for asylum.
Simply being Muslim in China qualifies a migrant for asylum here in the U.S. (if that were not true, the people described in the article wouldn’t be “released on parole”, assuming that our laws and regulations are being enforced). But we won’t negotiate with the Chinese to arrange an airlift via Airbus A380 of all of the Chinese Muslims who wish to take up their birthrate of American citizenship.
The NYT describes the hardship of being a Muslim migrant to the U.S., even without Trump having resumed his dictatorship:
But Mr. Ma, the founder of the shelter, said Muslim migrants faced obstacles in making lives in America. Pork dishes, which many Muslims don’t eat, feature heavily in most Chinese restaurants.
Here’s someone who has two reasons for needing asylum:
“My mother told me to stay here,” said Yan, a single mother who came to the United States in July with her 10-year-old son, Masoud, through the Darién Gap. “‘If you come back,’” she quoted her own mother as saying, “‘there’ll be no good outcome for you. Who knows — they might even sentence you to life imprisonment.’”
“It would be lying if anyone says they are not scared,” said Yan, the single mother. “Everyone is on edge.” She said she would accept being deported but would make the painful decision to have someone adopt her son, who has problems learning, if it meant he could stay in the United States.
“My son has to stay here,” she said. “Going back would mean no chance of survival for him.”
We’re informed by the New York Times that is de facto illegal to be Muslim in China. As far as I know, it is de jure illegal to be a “single mother” in China (a pregnant person who chooses to have a child outside of marriage is not entitled to avail him/her/zir/theirself of state services, such as free schools and free health care; certainly there is no way to make a profit by having a baby without being married (the American Way)).
Every time I look at an article like this I’m more confused. Why do people have to walk to the U.S. in order to be eligible for U.S. residence/citizenship? If the abuse/danger level is the same, why is a person with the financial means and health required to do the walk more entitled to live here than someone who does not have these advantages?
Related:
- China is a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (i.e., the purported denier of human rights is actually one of the countries selected by peers as most qualified to deal with human rights issues)
I do not think it is neither lrgal to be single mom in Islsam, unless she is widowed. She always can find asylim from pork in Iran or Saudi Arabia..
How does a single mom with a ten-year old walk the thousands of miles through S. America and the Darian Gap to make it to the U.S.? How do they feed themselves along the way? Sleep? Handle bodily functions and medical needs? I always thought there is something fishy about these immigrants from other hemispheres walking across S. American jungles to reach the U.S.
NGOs paid with our tax money do everything possible to speed up the journey.