Spanish-language materials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Mexican government, and other organizations coach migrants on how to enter the United States “under false pretenses.”
QUICK FACTS:
- According to National File and the immigration news website Border Hawk, the United Nations has distributed Spanish-language pamphlets that instruct illegal immigrants on how to claim refugee status in the United States.
- Border Hawk’s Wid Lyman found these pamphlets among the debris, waste, and refuse that migrants leave in their wake.
REFUGEES OR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS:
- As defined by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, “a refugee is a person who has fled their country of origin because of past persecution or a fear of future persecution based upon race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.”
- Using the legal definition, most people at the southern border do not qualify as “refugees,” which Lyman notes. Thus, the U.N. pamphlets are useless to these migrants, unless they seek to enter the country illegally, under false pretenses.
- Lyman adds “[i]t was shocking, they’re coached, they’re well funded, they’re well organized. It does raise the question, what is going on? Why are they here? What are they doing?”
BACKGROUND:
- The Biden administration is currently under intense fire for its handling of the southern border.
- Though border-state Republicans are the loudest and most persistent critics, the issue resonates with voters across the spectrum, as this spike in illegal crossings is unprecedented, and with it comes more drugs, more coronavirus fear, and more human trafficking.
