3 December, 2018 Class

• A caravan is a large group of people traveling.
• Asylum comes back to the start of the Holocaust.
• After rejecting all 900 Jews who requested a safe place to get away from Germany, they returned to Europe and were then killed in Nazi camps.
• After the incidents of the Holocaust, the United Nations had a meeting in 1951 where they decided to not turn people again if they are in need.
• Asylum is a safe home for immigrants in difficult situations.
• Non reforma (not returning) - a French term that states not to return people who are in danger to the countries they come from.
• In the meeting, the countries decreed that they were not to discriminate against people and if it were known to them that people in a country are discriminated against, they were to aid them.
• PERSECUTION is the reason why people leave their countries.
• Have to prove you are being persecuted to enter a country.
• Some reasons why people are persecuted are:
• Race
• Nationality
• Religion
• Political beliefs
• Social groups
• Some others:
• Domestic violence (under Obama presidency after Guatemalan was horribly beaten by her husband in a machoism government)
• Gang violence and terrorism
• Gays
• In the Holocaust, the following groups of people were killed:
• Jews
• Gays
• Gypsies
• Mentally disabled
• Or just anyone who is non-productive or different-looking from Aryan looks.
• Some immigrants, such as those from Haiti, were classified as "economic" immigrants just to keep them away from the United States.
• From 2008-2016, there was a 1700% increase in the requests for asylum in the United States. And 50,000 people who crossed the Rio Grande illegally.