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Blockading Asylum Seekers at Ports of Entry at the US-Mexico Border Puts Them at Increased Risk of Exploitation, Violence, and Death
(2018)
Abstract
http://cmsny.org/publications/heyman-slack-asylum-poe/
The people we are concerned with have a credible fear that they seek to express to US border authorities. If previous fears derive from their home country and their trip through Mexico, once they are turned away at the literal boundary line, their return to Mexico and time there adds to their fear. They face serious risks of homicide, disappearance, kidnapping, trafficking, extortion, robbery, sexual assault, and so forth. The turn away policy holds responsibility for any additional harms they experience once forced back into Mexico. It is wrong and must change, and any policy idea premised on the security of migrants in Mexico should be abandoned.
Keywords
- borders,
- asylum,
- migration,
- returns,
- human rights
Disciplines
Publication Date
2018
Citation Information
Josiah Heyman and Jeremy Slack. "Blockading Asylum Seekers at Ports of Entry at the US-Mexico Border Puts Them at Increased Risk of Exploitation, Violence, and Death" (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/josiah_heyman/5/