Post on asylum seekers treated humanely
July 12, 2019 7:28 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for a social media post I saw recently about an earlier large influx of asylum seekers to the US describing them being treated humanely and processed in a timely manner.
Within the past week or so I saw a post going around social media — probably Facebook or Twitter, since those are the platforms I usually use — describing an earlier situation in which large numbers of asylum seekers to the US were treated humanely and processed in a timely manner. I'm looking for it now, but trying to search social media is crap. Can anyone point me to it?
What I remember about it (memory being what it is, I cannot guarantee these details are correct):
* The seekers were arriving at a single facility
* The post claimed the rate of asylum seekers arriving in this situation was much larger than the current rate of those arriving from Mexico
* The original was written by someone claiming to be an employee at the facility at the time
* It described asylum seekers being treated humanely— in particular, the detail that they were cots for everyone sticks out — along with a line something like "no one slept on the floor, no one was put in a cage"
* Asylum claims were processed in a timely manner, and those whose claims were approved were allowed into the US, and those whose claims were denied were returned
* The situation was relatively recent — I want to say within the past twenty years, but in any case it's not like it was the early 20th century.
* It was specifically about people requesting asylum, not just immigrants generally
Has anyone seen this or is able to find it? (Bonus: if it is found, any fact-checking of the claims would be welcome.) I'd like to be able to use it as a response to people asking "well, what should we be doing with them?"
Within the past week or so I saw a post going around social media — probably Facebook or Twitter, since those are the platforms I usually use — describing an earlier situation in which large numbers of asylum seekers to the US were treated humanely and processed in a timely manner. I'm looking for it now, but trying to search social media is crap. Can anyone point me to it?
What I remember about it (memory being what it is, I cannot guarantee these details are correct):
* The seekers were arriving at a single facility
* The post claimed the rate of asylum seekers arriving in this situation was much larger than the current rate of those arriving from Mexico
* The original was written by someone claiming to be an employee at the facility at the time
* It described asylum seekers being treated humanely— in particular, the detail that they were cots for everyone sticks out — along with a line something like "no one slept on the floor, no one was put in a cage"
* Asylum claims were processed in a timely manner, and those whose claims were approved were allowed into the US, and those whose claims were denied were returned
* The situation was relatively recent — I want to say within the past twenty years, but in any case it's not like it was the early 20th century.
* It was specifically about people requesting asylum, not just immigrants generally
Has anyone seen this or is able to find it? (Bonus: if it is found, any fact-checking of the claims would be welcome.) I'd like to be able to use it as a response to people asking "well, what should we be doing with them?"
From the US Politics megathread:
posted by Little Dawn at 9:48 AM on July 12, 2019 [3 favorites]
And that old FPP, from me: Refugees, Resettlement, and Reunion. It's not the social media post you saw, but it's an interesting look at how a refugee situation can be, and has been, handled.
posted by MonkeyToes at 6:19 PM on July 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by MonkeyToes at 6:19 PM on July 12, 2019 [1 favorite]
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