所有庇护申请，包括维吾尔人庇护申请受到川普政府新庇护政策严重影响
随然品葱把我放到黑名单，但是我还是希望大家了解真相。从他的实际行为，川普完全不是一个支持人权，自由言论的领导人。
以下是 American Prospect 在今年八月五号对于川普政府新推出的庇护政策对所有的难民，包括维吾尔人和所有被中共迫害的异议人士所作出的报道。
有两条新法规特别影响所有政治庇护申请。
（1） 川普新庇护政策限制申请庇护身份的最新提议的规则中包含的14天过境禁令规定，如果您在一个拥有庇护系统的国家/地区停留了两周以上，那么您将没有资格在美国获得政治庇护；如果你的逃难过程经过在一个以上的国家/地区， 你也将被禁止庇护。 川普政府这条规则特别伤害到经过墨西哥边境寻求庇护者，例如不能直飞美国的寻求庇护者。川普的新法这也重新定义了 ”第三国居住“的解释。 只要你在一个第三国滞留超过两个星期，即使你在那个国家没有合法身份，你就非常有可能失去在美国申请庇护的资格。
（2）在新规则下，只有与政府有关的政治演讲才有资格获得庇护。换句话说，主张同性恋平权，妇女教育或少数民族权利但不主张“政权更换”的人将失去在美国获得庇护的资格，因为这种言论将不符合政治性质的标准。
（3）川普的新规则还将消除基于性别的庇护，严重限制妇女因家庭虐待或基于性侵暴力寻求庇护的资格，并严格限制LGBTQ人使用同性恋身份寻求庇护的资格。 LGBTQ寻求庇护者资源平台Asylum Connect的联合创始人凯蒂·斯加罗（Katie Sgarro）表示：“川普新法将导致LGBTQ和HIV阳性维权人士被拒绝庇护，并被驱逐回原籍国，在那里他们大声疾呼。”
（4）限制申请工作证，申请庇护者必须等待一年以上才可以取工作许可证。如果从墨西哥边境入境者必须等到移民法官做出裁决才可以取得工作许可证。
川普的新庇护法基本上将严格限制政治庇护，改变美国政府对于人权法基本定义的解释。以下是 American Prospect 基于几位维吾尔人的经验分享川普改变庇护法规对于受中共逼迫的受害者需求庇护保护的报道。
联邦法原文：
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-12575.pdf
文章原文：
After Uighurs Escape China, They Face the U.S. Asylum System
Uighur asylum seekers in Virginia thought they would be safe here. But new rules delay work permits, draining savings and risking survival.
by Marcia Brown
August 5, 2020
Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images
The Trump administration’s unabated assault on asylum is affecting Uighurs fleeing China.
In July, Mahire Alim’s four year-old son had a toothache, and it wouldn’t go away. Alim and her husband Adli Bekri* are Uighur asylum seekers who arrived in the U.S. in late February, fleeing both ethnic persecution and an encroaching pandemic. But they can’t afford the medical care—at least $3,500—for their son’s urgent dental treatment. They can’t afford it because they can’t work legally in the U.S.
The couples’ asylum applications have been pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) since April 20, but according to two new asylum rules proposed by the Trump administration that will take effect August 25, they won’t be eligible to apply for work permits this month. The first rule, experts have said, would fundamentally devastate the asylum system, drastically changing the very definition of persecution under the law. Under the second rule, an asylum seeker has to wait 365 days from the day they file their asylum application to apply for a work permit, up from 150 days. The rule also stipulates that, after they file their applications, the government no longer would have to process their application within 30 days; in theory, they could let the application linger indefinitely.
Notably, asylum seekers who cross the border illegally—not at a port of entry—are ineligible for work permits, “unless and until an immigration judge finds that they qualify for an exception.” But the system set up by the administration also consigns asylum seekers who used all legal means to seek refuge to endless uncertainty and anxiety.
More from Marcia Brown
Last month, several immigrant advocacy organizations filed suit, alleging that the new rules violate the Administrative Procedures Act by using a “piecemeal approach.”
“I think they want to hurt as many people as they can,” said Nick Katz, legal services senior manager at CASA, one of the organizations that filed the case. “It’s very transparent what they’re trying to do, and they may have tried to dot the Is and cross the Ts and go through process, but I think we very clearly laid out the case.”
Trump is more desperate to apply every anti-immigrant administrative tool at his disposal.
In the meantime, Alim and Bekri have taken out loans and are relying on the generosity of the local Uighurs in Virginia. “We are borrowing money from our Uighur community for daily necessities—simply to have something to eat and a shelter for us,” said Bekri.
The asylum rules, experts have said, fit into the Trump administration’s unabated assault on the practice, which has accelerated as Election Day approaches, with Trump more desperate to apply every anti-immigrant administrative tool at his disposal.
Katz said he thinks that administration has “basically ended legal immigration to the U.S.” during the pandemic, with asylum the final casualty. The U.S. does not have a system that reflects the realities of global migration, he said. “The focus on asylum seekers is really because that’s the group that has the most protections under the law,” he said, “and [Trump] wants to shut down that pathway too.”
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CHINA’S UIGHURS, A MOSTLY MUSLIM, TURKIC-SPEAKING ETHNIC MINORITY located in Xinjiang province, have faced relentless government persecution. An estimated one to three million Uighurs currently are detained in concentration camps, where their labor has been used to produce masks and even in the supply chains of Nike, Adidas, and Apple.
The backlog of asylum cases has caught Uighur asylum seekers more generally in the purgatory of American immigration, reported The[url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-muslim-uighurs-are-stuck-in-u-s-immigration-limbo-11595937603] [/url]Wall Street Journal last week. But the backlog has less to do with the pandemic, at least not yet, and a lot more to do with Trump administration policies that delay adjudication.
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https://www.evernote.com/shard/s64/res/2e8039ee-6532-4636-80f5-00a388c94ceeJacquelyn Martin/AP Photo
Rushan Abbas, a Uighur in Washington, D.C., holds a photo of her detained sister, Gulshan Abbas, December 2018.
A law signed by President Trump in June imposes sanctions on foreign individuals and entities involved in the Xinjiang abuses. But it does nothing to speed up the process for Uighurs seeking asylum in America.
According to Daniel Baker, Alim and Bekri’s immigration attorney, Uighurs almost always win their cases, citing the obvious conditions in Xinjiang. Half of Baker’s asylum clients are Uighurs, though his client list has shrunk over the past few years, he told me, because it’s harder for Uighurs to leave China. Alim and Bekri were already abroad, and fearful of returning to China at all. “I do kind of argue,” he said, “that being a Uighur in China by itself is enough to give you a reasonable fear of persecution.”
Baker pointed out that the stated rationale for the administration’s new asylum rule is to deter “frivolous” asylum claims that the government asserts someone might file solely in order to get a work permit. But, “the Trump administration has been, without admitting it, actively seeking to drive as many immigrants as possible into the underground economy,” he said.
Under current practice, if an asylum seeker is lucky enough to get a USCIS interview quickly—say, within five months of applying—and the USCIS officer finds the case “well founded,” the officer will issue a “recommended approval,” allowing an asylum seeker to apply for a work permit immediately, avoiding the required 150 days under current law. But under the new rule, an asylum seeker would still have to wait a full year to apply for a work permit.
“The new rule says even if the USCIS agrees that your case is not frivolous and that your case is well-founded, you still have to wait a year for your work permit,” said Baker. “So if there were any proof that the supposed justification for this is to deter frivolous asylum claims, that explodes it. The sole purpose here is to prevent legitimate asylum claimants from working.”
ALIM AND HER HUSBAND have both spent the better part of the last decade in a country in central Europe. (They asked to avoid specificity to protect their family in China.) Both secured education abroad. Alim studied first for her master’s degree in finance and then a PhD. Bekri finished his master’s degree and began working while Alim finished her studies.
Alim told the Prospect in an email that she hasn’t seen her family in five years. “My mother,” she wrote, “was detained in a concentration camp on September 23, 2017, for no reason except being Uighur.” After hearing this news, Alim struggled in her studies and developed a thyroid disorder. “I wanted to commit suicide many times, but whenever I saw my son, I told myself that I must be strong,” she wrote. By October 2019, despite completing the required coursework, she gave up her doctoral studies.
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Bekri said in an interview that Alim’s mother was one of the “lucky ones,” because she was able to return home from the camps. Relatives sent the couple a photo. “She was so skinny, and all her hair was grey, and it was like she was 80 years old,” Bekri said.
Another Uighur asylum seeker who spent time in that same central European country and spoke with the Prospect, Alim Tursun*, explained that there are so few Uighurs there that they all knew each other. Chinese police operate in at least one city in the country, and they have retaliated against the families of Uighurs living there. Two of his cousins have already disappeared.
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https://www.evernote.com/shard/s64/res/2e8039ee-6532-4636-80f5-00a388c94ceeNg Han Guan/AP Photo
Across the Xinjiang region, an estimated one to three million Uighurs currently live in concentration camps.
“Just being abroad is a very good reason to be put in these kinds of camps.”
According to Baker, Chinese police have extradited some Uighurs from Turkey, but not from the European country where his clients were located. (Extradition agreements allow fugitives in another country to be arrested and removed by the government of their country of origin. In this case, it allows China to arrest Uighurs in Turkey.)
“Just being abroad is a very good reason to be put in these kinds of camps,” said Bekri in an interview with the Prospect. Their son was born Europe in 2016, a year after the last time they visited family in China. He’s never met his grandparents, and it’s unclear when he will ever meet them.
TURSUN ARRIVED IN THE U.S. last December, and almost immediately decided to apply for asylum. But like the other Uighur couple who spoke with the Prospect, the timing of his application means that he, too, will be subject to the new work-permit rules.
A computer science engineer, he pays $850 a month for rent, and anticipated that his savings would last him until August when, under the old rules, he would be able to apply for his work permit and land a job by October. “I’m an engineer but I can’t work,” he said, noting his experience and the development of more than 10 applications to his name. “I just don’t know what to do.”
None of the Uighurs who spoke to the Prospect has told their relatives that they are in the U.S. In fact, Tursun said that he has kept his VPN and phone number from his time in Europe to maintain the illusion that he’s still there. He doesn’t plan to tell them for another two or three years. He has not returned to Xinjiang since 2016, when he was detained during a visit home at customs— “just because I’m a Uighur,” he said. The detention lasted several hours, with at least four different police officers asking him the same questions repeatedly.
Back in Europe, the surveillance was intense. While working on his master’s thesis, he traveled to another country in Europe to work for several months. There, he withdrew money from a bank to pay rent, buy food, and other essentials. Two weeks later, his sister in China called to ask why he had withdrawn money in another country. The police had called asking about him, she said to him. Don’t go anywhere else, she added.
A year after his visit home, he completed his master’s degree in computer science and obtained an internship. The company eventually sponsored him for a work permit in 2018. When he went to the office that processed immigration documents for his work permit, the woman at the desk, he said, looked Chinese. When he handed her his passport, she began questioning him in Chinese. Two days later, the police called his parents in China, asking questions about his job and salary in Europe. Then, a Chinese police officer added him on WeChat—the Chinese messaging app monitored by the government—and began questioning him there, too.
Since 2016, Tursun told me, the police called his family every three or four months to ask about him and what he was doing. “Then in 2017, we started hearing about the concentration camps,” he said. A Uighur friend of his in Europe—a graphic designer—visited family in 2017, and when he returned he told Tursun never to go back to the region. “If you got there you will disappear,” the friend told him.
Six months before renewing his work permit, Tursun’s company told him they were downsizing and eliminating his position. He eventually applied for and received Canadian and American tourist visas. Baker, his lawyer, told me that many Uighurs travel to the United States on tourist visas before applying for asylum.
WHILE IN EUROPE, Alim and Bekri saved money, in anticipation of a wait for their asylum case in the U.S. When the pandemic took hold in Europe, they worried for their son and made the trip. “My husband and I only prepared for the worst-case scenario of six months with the only basic necessities (something to have to eat and a shelter to stay),” she wrote. When they arrived in February, they immediately signed a contract with their attorney and filed for asylum with USCIS. Their application has been pending since April 20.
On August 25, when the rules are set to take effect, the couple will have accumulated 127 days, but under the new rules they will have to wait another 238 days before applying for the permit. In an email, Alim urged me to “highlight how brutal and inhuman the final rule is … the new rule equals throwing asylum seekers on the street.”
Since arriving in Virginia via New York, they have been staying with friends. Bekri said he read all 97 pages of the final rule, and was devastated to learn that it would apply to them. The couple said they are afraid to work under the table, although their lawyer, Baker, told me that that an asylum seeker working illegally would have no impact on their asylum application. “Many of my clients will have no other choice,” he added. Others dispute that it would not have an effect.
So they wait. Five days a week, Bekri runs six miles at 5:30 each morning. Any later, he worries, there will be too many people out and he will “catch the virus.” In Europe, he ran a marathon. In Virginia, the couple plays with their 4-year-old son, reading him books and teaching him languages. Their family still has no idea they’re here, and they still can’t afford their son’s medical care.
原文： https://prospect.org/world/after-uighurs-escape-china-face-u-s-asylum-system/
以下是 American Prospect 在今年八月五号对于川普政府新推出的庇护政策对所有的难民，包括维吾尔人和所有被中共迫害的异议人士所作出的报道。
有两条新法规特别影响所有政治庇护申请。
（1） 川普新庇护政策限制申请庇护身份的最新提议的规则中包含的14天过境禁令规定，如果您在一个拥有庇护系统的国家/地区停留了两周以上，那么您将没有资格在美国获得政治庇护；如果你的逃难过程经过在一个以上的国家/地区， 你也将被禁止庇护。 川普政府这条规则特别伤害到经过墨西哥边境寻求庇护者，例如不能直飞美国的寻求庇护者。川普的新法这也重新定义了 ”第三国居住“的解释。 只要你在一个第三国滞留超过两个星期，即使你在那个国家没有合法身份，你就非常有可能失去在美国申请庇护的资格。
（2）在新规则下，只有与政府有关的政治演讲才有资格获得庇护。换句话说，主张同性恋平权，妇女教育或少数民族权利但不主张“政权更换”的人将失去在美国获得庇护的资格，因为这种言论将不符合政治性质的标准。
（3）川普的新规则还将消除基于性别的庇护，严重限制妇女因家庭虐待或基于性侵暴力寻求庇护的资格，并严格限制LGBTQ人使用同性恋身份寻求庇护的资格。 LGBTQ寻求庇护者资源平台Asylum Connect的联合创始人凯蒂·斯加罗（Katie Sgarro）表示：“川普新法将导致LGBTQ和HIV阳性维权人士被拒绝庇护，并被驱逐回原籍国，在那里他们大声疾呼。”
（4）限制申请工作证，申请庇护者必须等待一年以上才可以取工作许可证。如果从墨西哥边境入境者必须等到移民法官做出裁决才可以取得工作许可证。
川普的新庇护法基本上将严格限制政治庇护，改变美国政府对于人权法基本定义的解释。以下是 American Prospect 基于几位维吾尔人的经验分享川普改变庇护法规对于受中共逼迫的受害者需求庇护保护的报道。
联邦法原文：
https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-12575.pdf
文章原文：
After Uighurs Escape China, They Face the U.S. Asylum System
Uighur asylum seekers in Virginia thought they would be safe here. But new rules delay work permits, draining savings and risking survival.
by Marcia Brown
August 5, 2020
Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images
The Trump administration’s unabated assault on asylum is affecting Uighurs fleeing China.
In July, Mahire Alim’s four year-old son had a toothache, and it wouldn’t go away. Alim and her husband Adli Bekri* are Uighur asylum seekers who arrived in the U.S. in late February, fleeing both ethnic persecution and an encroaching pandemic. But they can’t afford the medical care—at least $3,500—for their son’s urgent dental treatment. They can’t afford it because they can’t work legally in the U.S.
The couples’ asylum applications have been pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) since April 20, but according to two new asylum rules proposed by the Trump administration that will take effect August 25, they won’t be eligible to apply for work permits this month. The first rule, experts have said, would fundamentally devastate the asylum system, drastically changing the very definition of persecution under the law. Under the second rule, an asylum seeker has to wait 365 days from the day they file their asylum application to apply for a work permit, up from 150 days. The rule also stipulates that, after they file their applications, the government no longer would have to process their application within 30 days; in theory, they could let the application linger indefinitely.
Notably, asylum seekers who cross the border illegally—not at a port of entry—are ineligible for work permits, “unless and until an immigration judge finds that they qualify for an exception.” But the system set up by the administration also consigns asylum seekers who used all legal means to seek refuge to endless uncertainty and anxiety.
More from Marcia Brown
Last month, several immigrant advocacy organizations filed suit, alleging that the new rules violate the Administrative Procedures Act by using a “piecemeal approach.”
“I think they want to hurt as many people as they can,” said Nick Katz, legal services senior manager at CASA, one of the organizations that filed the case. “It’s very transparent what they’re trying to do, and they may have tried to dot the Is and cross the Ts and go through process, but I think we very clearly laid out the case.”
Trump is more desperate to apply every anti-immigrant administrative tool at his disposal.
In the meantime, Alim and Bekri have taken out loans and are relying on the generosity of the local Uighurs in Virginia. “We are borrowing money from our Uighur community for daily necessities—simply to have something to eat and a shelter for us,” said Bekri.
The asylum rules, experts have said, fit into the Trump administration’s unabated assault on the practice, which has accelerated as Election Day approaches, with Trump more desperate to apply every anti-immigrant administrative tool at his disposal.
Katz said he thinks that administration has “basically ended legal immigration to the U.S.” during the pandemic, with asylum the final casualty. The U.S. does not have a system that reflects the realities of global migration, he said. “The focus on asylum seekers is really because that’s the group that has the most protections under the law,” he said, “and [Trump] wants to shut down that pathway too.”
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CHINA’S UIGHURS, A MOSTLY MUSLIM, TURKIC-SPEAKING ETHNIC MINORITY located in Xinjiang province, have faced relentless government persecution. An estimated one to three million Uighurs currently are detained in concentration camps, where their labor has been used to produce masks and even in the supply chains of Nike, Adidas, and Apple.
The backlog of asylum cases has caught Uighur asylum seekers more generally in the purgatory of American immigration, reported The[url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-muslim-uighurs-are-stuck-in-u-s-immigration-limbo-11595937603] [/url]Wall Street Journal last week. But the backlog has less to do with the pandemic, at least not yet, and a lot more to do with Trump administration policies that delay adjudication.
Expand
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s64/res/2e8039ee-6532-4636-80f5-00a388c94ceeJacquelyn Martin/AP Photo
Rushan Abbas, a Uighur in Washington, D.C., holds a photo of her detained sister, Gulshan Abbas, December 2018.
A law signed by President Trump in June imposes sanctions on foreign individuals and entities involved in the Xinjiang abuses. But it does nothing to speed up the process for Uighurs seeking asylum in America.
According to Daniel Baker, Alim and Bekri’s immigration attorney, Uighurs almost always win their cases, citing the obvious conditions in Xinjiang. Half of Baker’s asylum clients are Uighurs, though his client list has shrunk over the past few years, he told me, because it’s harder for Uighurs to leave China. Alim and Bekri were already abroad, and fearful of returning to China at all. “I do kind of argue,” he said, “that being a Uighur in China by itself is enough to give you a reasonable fear of persecution.”
Baker pointed out that the stated rationale for the administration’s new asylum rule is to deter “frivolous” asylum claims that the government asserts someone might file solely in order to get a work permit. But, “the Trump administration has been, without admitting it, actively seeking to drive as many immigrants as possible into the underground economy,” he said.
Under current practice, if an asylum seeker is lucky enough to get a USCIS interview quickly—say, within five months of applying—and the USCIS officer finds the case “well founded,” the officer will issue a “recommended approval,” allowing an asylum seeker to apply for a work permit immediately, avoiding the required 150 days under current law. But under the new rule, an asylum seeker would still have to wait a full year to apply for a work permit.
“The new rule says even if the USCIS agrees that your case is not frivolous and that your case is well-founded, you still have to wait a year for your work permit,” said Baker. “So if there were any proof that the supposed justification for this is to deter frivolous asylum claims, that explodes it. The sole purpose here is to prevent legitimate asylum claimants from working.”
ALIM AND HER HUSBAND have both spent the better part of the last decade in a country in central Europe. (They asked to avoid specificity to protect their family in China.) Both secured education abroad. Alim studied first for her master’s degree in finance and then a PhD. Bekri finished his master’s degree and began working while Alim finished her studies.
Alim told the Prospect in an email that she hasn’t seen her family in five years. “My mother,” she wrote, “was detained in a concentration camp on September 23, 2017, for no reason except being Uighur.” After hearing this news, Alim struggled in her studies and developed a thyroid disorder. “I wanted to commit suicide many times, but whenever I saw my son, I told myself that I must be strong,” she wrote. By October 2019, despite completing the required coursework, she gave up her doctoral studies.
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Bekri said in an interview that Alim’s mother was one of the “lucky ones,” because she was able to return home from the camps. Relatives sent the couple a photo. “She was so skinny, and all her hair was grey, and it was like she was 80 years old,” Bekri said.
Another Uighur asylum seeker who spent time in that same central European country and spoke with the Prospect, Alim Tursun*, explained that there are so few Uighurs there that they all knew each other. Chinese police operate in at least one city in the country, and they have retaliated against the families of Uighurs living there. Two of his cousins have already disappeared.
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https://www.evernote.com/shard/s64/res/2e8039ee-6532-4636-80f5-00a388c94ceeNg Han Guan/AP Photo
Across the Xinjiang region, an estimated one to three million Uighurs currently live in concentration camps.
“Just being abroad is a very good reason to be put in these kinds of camps.”
According to Baker, Chinese police have extradited some Uighurs from Turkey, but not from the European country where his clients were located. (Extradition agreements allow fugitives in another country to be arrested and removed by the government of their country of origin. In this case, it allows China to arrest Uighurs in Turkey.)
“Just being abroad is a very good reason to be put in these kinds of camps,” said Bekri in an interview with the Prospect. Their son was born Europe in 2016, a year after the last time they visited family in China. He’s never met his grandparents, and it’s unclear when he will ever meet them.
TURSUN ARRIVED IN THE U.S. last December, and almost immediately decided to apply for asylum. But like the other Uighur couple who spoke with the Prospect, the timing of his application means that he, too, will be subject to the new work-permit rules.
A computer science engineer, he pays $850 a month for rent, and anticipated that his savings would last him until August when, under the old rules, he would be able to apply for his work permit and land a job by October. “I’m an engineer but I can’t work,” he said, noting his experience and the development of more than 10 applications to his name. “I just don’t know what to do.”
None of the Uighurs who spoke to the Prospect has told their relatives that they are in the U.S. In fact, Tursun said that he has kept his VPN and phone number from his time in Europe to maintain the illusion that he’s still there. He doesn’t plan to tell them for another two or three years. He has not returned to Xinjiang since 2016, when he was detained during a visit home at customs— “just because I’m a Uighur,” he said. The detention lasted several hours, with at least four different police officers asking him the same questions repeatedly.
Back in Europe, the surveillance was intense. While working on his master’s thesis, he traveled to another country in Europe to work for several months. There, he withdrew money from a bank to pay rent, buy food, and other essentials. Two weeks later, his sister in China called to ask why he had withdrawn money in another country. The police had called asking about him, she said to him. Don’t go anywhere else, she added.
A year after his visit home, he completed his master’s degree in computer science and obtained an internship. The company eventually sponsored him for a work permit in 2018. When he went to the office that processed immigration documents for his work permit, the woman at the desk, he said, looked Chinese. When he handed her his passport, she began questioning him in Chinese. Two days later, the police called his parents in China, asking questions about his job and salary in Europe. Then, a Chinese police officer added him on WeChat—the Chinese messaging app monitored by the government—and began questioning him there, too.
Since 2016, Tursun told me, the police called his family every three or four months to ask about him and what he was doing. “Then in 2017, we started hearing about the concentration camps,” he said. A Uighur friend of his in Europe—a graphic designer—visited family in 2017, and when he returned he told Tursun never to go back to the region. “If you got there you will disappear,” the friend told him.
Six months before renewing his work permit, Tursun’s company told him they were downsizing and eliminating his position. He eventually applied for and received Canadian and American tourist visas. Baker, his lawyer, told me that many Uighurs travel to the United States on tourist visas before applying for asylum.
WHILE IN EUROPE, Alim and Bekri saved money, in anticipation of a wait for their asylum case in the U.S. When the pandemic took hold in Europe, they worried for their son and made the trip. “My husband and I only prepared for the worst-case scenario of six months with the only basic necessities (something to have to eat and a shelter to stay),” she wrote. When they arrived in February, they immediately signed a contract with their attorney and filed for asylum with USCIS. Their application has been pending since April 20.
On August 25, when the rules are set to take effect, the couple will have accumulated 127 days, but under the new rules they will have to wait another 238 days before applying for the permit. In an email, Alim urged me to “highlight how brutal and inhuman the final rule is … the new rule equals throwing asylum seekers on the street.”
Since arriving in Virginia via New York, they have been staying with friends. Bekri said he read all 97 pages of the final rule, and was devastated to learn that it would apply to them. The couple said they are afraid to work under the table, although their lawyer, Baker, told me that that an asylum seeker working illegally would have no impact on their asylum application. “Many of my clients will have no other choice,” he added. Others dispute that it would not have an effect.
So they wait. Five days a week, Bekri runs six miles at 5:30 each morning. Any later, he worries, there will be too many people out and he will “catch the virus.” In Europe, he ran a marathon. In Virginia, the couple plays with their 4-year-old son, reading him books and teaching him languages. Their family still has no idea they’re here, and they still can’t afford their son’s medical care.
原文： https://prospect.org/world/after-uighurs-escape-china-face-u-s-asylum-system/
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川普政府讓東亞大陸的精神美國人越來越難以移民美國，反而之前的民主黨政府對待東亞大陸的精神美國人很友善，很多東亞大陸的精神美國人在民主黨時代成功移民美國。
>>川普政府讓東亞大陸的精神美國人越來越難以移民美國，反而之前的民主黨政府對待東亞大陸的精神美國人很友善...
很多人拿了政治庇护就忘了别人还在受中共的压迫，这种过河拆桥的心态，实在是非常悲哀。川普实际上是一个反人权，反民主的民粹领袖，历史自然会有判决。
必須守護自由美國，必須防止黃右與白右聯手消滅自由美國。
>>必須守護自由美國，必須防止黃右與白右聯手消滅自由美國。
我觉得不要分左右，只有对和错。取消政治庇护，监禁难民，尤其是儿童，这是反人道的行为。无论是左右，如果这样做的是不对的。排斥异己，维护一言堂，打压政治言论，无论是左派还是右派如果这样做都是不对的。我怀疑，许多这个网站所谓的川粉，应该是小粉红或中共人员来搞臭品葱，让大家无法发表不同观点。
我覺得民主黨的移民政策被右派妖魔化了，民主黨只是傾向於讓認同美國的精神美國人成為美國公民，很多非法移民都是實質上建設美國的精神美國人，他們確實應該成為美國公民，共和黨所謂的歡迎合法移民打擊非法移民在操作的過程中讓很多認同美國的反共人士沒有機會移民美國，反而讓共匪的同路人打著中國合法移民的旗號成為美國公民。機械化的劃分合法與非法根本不合理，因為在中國基本上只有共匪的同路人才容易成為有機會合法移民的人，比如共匪官員的子女，比如還沒有得罪當權派的紅頂資本家，這些人本質上是共匪黨文化的傳承者，進入美國會成為顛覆自由美國的禍害。共和黨政府雖然制裁了一些共匪特務，但是並沒有遣返被共匪公派出國的小粉紅留學生，而且根本沒有停止對於因為在中國遭受政治迫害無法合法移民美國的精神美國人的壓迫，民主黨並非一點優點也沒有，共和黨並非一點缺點也沒有，我覺得看待事情應該客觀。
在中國可以得到合法投資簽證的人基本上都是紅頂商人，可以得到合法留學簽證的人基本上都是小粉紅留學生，可以得到合法技術移民簽證的基本上都是共匪逆淘汰機制塑造出來的假道學，可以得到合法工作簽證的工人基本上都是沒有勞權意識的工賊，反而誠實經營的人容易成為被收割被迫害的韭菜，根本出不去，不是小粉紅的學生只要意識形態情況被共匪知道了，根本就沒有機會出國留學，有創造力的科研人員早就被黨國體制扼殺了，根本不太可能有機會得到技術移民簽證，有勞權意識的工人早就被共匪與資方迫害了，路易斯生前反對共和黨機械化的根據合法移民與非法移民劃分移民人口的好壞是有道理的。
川普全面禁止H，J，L工作签证，不止中国，所有国家的人都无法来美国工作。依据美国商会提告川普政府的官司，川普的工作签证禁令已经造成美国企业一百亿（100 billion）美金的损失。
我支持防止產業外移，我支持防止美國資本與共匪做生意，但是我反對機械化的根據合法移民與非法移民劃分移民人口的好壞。
产业外移和机械化是趋势，可能无法避免。但是解决方法绝对不是盲目排外或者是锁国政策。可以参考Andrew Yang的一些提案。
我支持繞開共匪的全球化，紅色供應鏈應該拒絕，至於避免盲目排外的事情，可以對移民人口進行腦波測謊，屬於精神美國人的移民人口可以待在美國，屬於共匪同路人的移民人口被遣返。
和你们两个黑名单用户意见统一，我瑟瑟发抖中
测谎精确度很差，被人身威胁的时候的慌张很容易被当作谎言，不能作为评价证据
>>我支持繞開共匪的全球化，紅色供應鏈應該拒絕，至於避免盲目排外的事情，可以對移民人口進行腦波測謊，屬於...
测谎精确度很差，被人身威胁的时候的慌张很容易被当作谎言，不能作为评价证据