A 25-year-old from Kiev is saying the same thing as other asylum seekers and advocates: Border officials continue to deny asylum to people of color while letting in white Europeans.
A Ukrainian war refugee was finally reunited with relatives in California. Now that she’s here, she says asylum seekers from other countries should get the same opportunity. KPBS reporter Gustavo Solis says there is a growing inequity at the southern border.
At one point, border officials also refused to allow Russian and Belarusian asylum seekers into the country, she said. But the migrants lobbied for each other and eventually persuaded border officials to let other European nationals in. Historically, federal and international law has given anyone the right to request asylum. And though the majority of requests are denied, they are issued by a judge who has reviewed evidence.
Lawyers and activists in Tijuana are seeing agents grant exemptions to white asylum seekers while continuing to deny them to black and brown migrants, some of which have been in Tijuana for well over a year. The migrants slept in donated blankets and jackets. On a couple occasions, drunk Americans heckled the asylum seekers on their way back to San Diego from a night out in Tijuana, Poliakova said.
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