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Immigration
The Truth About Immigration: Asylum
Originally published in 2018, this third article in a five-part series remains relevant and includes updated sources and data
Anti-immigrant rhetoric continues running rampant online. Many bloggers and far-right outlets have exposed how little they know about immigration. As they once tried to define their position by claiming that they are not against immigration in general, but simply against illegal immigration they are now losing it over legal immigrants too. They clearly don’t understand any of it.
Let’s not be naive about it. If you know and understand dog whistles, then you know what and where this “illegal immigrant” rhetoric was born. It is verbiage perpetuated for over a century in the United States. What we’re hearing isn’t new. It’s just much louder. When it comes to the border, it’s so much worse.
Most of it is derived from the notion that the only avenue to become a legal immigrant in the United States is to apply in one’s home country and wait it out as the process takes its course. While there is some truth to that, it’s not quite that simple. Nor is that the only way to seek legal status.
