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Re: Ethnonepotism
« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2022, 10:41:35 pm »
https://us.yahoo.com/news/advocates-call-out-double-standard-for-black-and-brown-migrants-vs-ukrainian-refugees-211549303.html

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With more than 4.9 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of their country, the Biden administration announced in late March it will accept 100,000 people who are escaping that conflict into the U.S.

While pro-immigration activists usually welcome such an announcement, some are criticizing what they see as a double standard being applied at the southern border that favors Ukrainian refugees over Black and brown migrants who have already been waiting. In March, over 3,000 Ukrainian refugees were processed at the U.S.-Mexico border, while refugees from other countries have been waiting months — and in some cases years — for their asylum cases to be heard.

“That is very different than the treatment that has been received by largely Black and brown refugees over the last two years, while the border has been closed to all asylum seekers due to a law known as Title 42, which is billed as a public health measure needed to keep the U.S. public safe from rising levels of COVID in the world, but really functions to keep out asylum seekers that are Black and brown,” Nicole Ramos, director of the Border Rights Project at the legal services organization Al Otro Lado, told Yahoo News.
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Ramos said refugees from Haiti and other countries fall squarely within the protections provided by U.S. asylum law but are being denied the opportunity to access the legal process. Those who have already waited months for their cases to be processed are often just as desperately in need of humanitarian assistance as refugees from Ukraine.

Francel Celestin is a Haitian immigrant who is waiting, along with his wife and three children, for their asylum case to be processed in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Like many Haitian migrants, he isn't sure what to make of priority potentially being granted to Ukrainian refugees.

“For me, I feel small. I feel small because we come from the Caribbean, and they come from Europe. They left because of a war in their country, but it is their war. But we also left because of a war — because in our country, children cannot walk alone, and we cannot live a decent life for our children,” Celestin said.

If Ukrainian refugees themselves had any conscience, they would refuse to accept processing until all refugees who have been waiting longer than themselves have been processed first. But they don't, because they don't.