You are totally correct in saying that the refugee system is broken and needs fixing. In fact, I have heard that tune now for decades, but it is only getting worse.
I have nothing against immigrants, I was one myself once, and I can understand our obligation to protect true refugees. The fact is, however, that a large portion of refuge claims are spurious claims from economic migrants, and only clogs up the system for real refugees.
I have personal experiences in this regard. In the eighties, one “refugee” family from Panama was working for me while awaiting a decision on their claim. They were “refugees” from Noriega’s regime, or so they claimed, except by then Noriega was a guest of the US government in a Florida jail. They had a subsidized town home and got economic support from the government, even a $ 100.00 cheque for each of their four children at Christmas. Another employee, a native Canadian, complained that she earned the same money, also had children, and lived in the same town home complex, but paid her own rent. The “refugee” claimant asked me to sign a form as guarantor for her mother to come and visit from Panama. I asked her why, if she was a “refugee”, her mother could come to visit. I don’t remember exactly the answer she gave me, but shortly thereafter she quit.
You, again, bring up the matter of Grise, the woman who, after having been hiding from the immigration authorities for years, got caught and sent home. In between, she managed to "go back to visit her sick grandmother," but after finally being deported; like Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf got her. I find it incredible, beyond belief, that Mexican drug gangs would target her out of “revenge”. Revenge for what? Was she involved in the Mexican drug trade?
Just asking.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just aint't so.
-Mark Twain.
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