Subject: Re: we don't need nurses, right?
I interpreted your "cartels advertising" to imply that a significant segment of asylum-seekers fell into that category. And that simply isn't true. I'm sure some do. I'd be surprised if it's more than a few percent, but am open to data if any is available.

I think it's fairly easy to see what I'm talking about. That's the extent to which the migration path was known in many places in the world. How did the Chinese fellow know he could reach our Southern border and fly to Ecuador? The cartels were running a for profit operation, and were advertising it on social media in China. Do I think the Chinese fellow they interviewed about how he made the trip should get asylum? Yes, if his story checks out. How is it that people in the Middle East knew to fly into Nicaragua? It's being discussed in the Middle East, but a cartel doesn't seem to be profiting on that one.

The Chinese didn't show up until around the last 6 months of Biden's term, but they were there. Middle Easterners flying into the Nicaraguan airport and paying the airport tax. Nicaragua brought about the airport tax so they could profit off of it when they saw it happening. Middle Easterners were talking about it on line.

It was happening.

Again, I'd be surprised if it's that high. As I understand it, asylum criteria -in a nutshell- is that you have to fear for your life in your native country. Warlords, your own government, or something of that sort. Just being poor and desperate isn't good enough for asylum. I doubt even 1B would qualify, much less 2.4B (which is 30% of 8B). Though I stand to be corrected if there is relevant data to be had, or if I don't have the basic criteria correct.

I differ.

Under the Geneva Convention, asylum is granted to those with a "well-founded fear of persecution" due to their race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion. To qualify, an applicant must be outside their home country and be unable or unwilling to return because of this fear. This fear must have both a subjective (genuine) and an objective (evidence-based) component.

Do I think 30% of the world could have a well founded fear of persecution? YES. The problem is the evidence based part. Killings and persecutions happen every day. I have no idea what the evidentiary requirements are. I worked with people who walked through no mans land at night, could've been shot, to ultimately get here, and ended up working with me in the USA. Do I think they qualify for asylum? YES

But if, as you say, 60% of those people crossing the border qualified, that tends to support 30% of the world. Remember its not just the government, if the local gang gets in your face, time to leave.