Asylum Response Essay

Political unrest and local war happens around the world all the time. Many people live in a dangerous situation and suffered from violence. Hence, large amount of asylum seeker undertakes a huge perilous, try to cross the ocean and arrive Australia. To deal with this issue, Australian government enacted mandatory detention policy and offshore processing policy, these policies become highly contentious in the community with many arguments and criticisms. This report will focus on the nature and purpose of these immigration policies and the impact towards the asylum seeker as well as the criticism form international. To propose some advice about how the future policies should be framed.

Topic: Refugees face an incredibly rough and hard life. Not only are they attempting to leave a country that is incredibly dangerous and could get them killed at any time, but even if they survive the journey there is a strong possibility that they will not be allowed into the US.

The IRPA is a Federal legislation that outlines the current government’s position and approach to issues pertinent to the intake, protection, and settlement of immigrants and refugees. Considering the broad scope of this policy, my discussion will focus only on refugees. This paper will explore the influence of political ideology that lead to the recent IRPA policy changes following a Syrian toddler’s death in September, 2015, whose family was struggling to seek refuge in a safe country. I will analyse the congruence of the intent of the IRPA with its implementation, and whether the policy making approach is inclusive or not. Recommendations suggested in conclusion, will focus on improving the content and implementation of the Immigration and Refugee Policy, as well as making the policy making process more inclusive and

In many cases individuals are label as refugees after being permitted to stay in the United States after applying for admission. Most of these immigrants have fled due of the fear of persecution due to their race, social clique, political officially, religion, or national origin. The admission of refugees turns on numerous factors, such as the degree of risk they face, membership in a group that is of special concern to the United States (designated yearly by the President of the United States and Congress), and whether or not they have family members in the United States. (American Immigration Council, 2016) After the events of September 11,2001, the number of approved admissions fell due to the increase in the complexity of security checks. The Department of Homeland Security determined the total amount of refugees’ admission permitted into the United States for 2016 was approximately 85,000. For those that individuals that reach the United Stated before applying for refugee; there is option for them to seek out asylum within the country. The individual must declare that they are seeking asylum at any port of entry or within one year after arriving in the United States. Currently, the immigration policies don’t limit the number of individuals who are granted

The issue of Asylum seekers has been considered as one of the controversial issues in Australia due to the implementation of the Federal governments’ harsh and stringent policy against boat refugees, who flee from their countries because of violence or persecution. It is stated that this hard line approach aims to curb the influx of illegal immigrants thereby making Australian Immigration System credible and strong (Anderson & Iggulden 2016). According to Refugee Convention 1954, Australia, a signatory under United Nation(UN) Refugee Agency, is regarded as one of the generous country in dealing with the protection and rights of refugees and has created a meritorious history of accepting asylum seekers from all over the world (Refugee

More than any country in the world, the United States has been a haven for refugees fleeing religious and political persecution in their home countries. Linked forever to the phrase inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," the United States, in the eyes of persecuted people throughout the world, has been idealized as a land of freedom and new beginnings. However, the changing face of refugees seeking asylum in the United States in the past several decades has exposed stark gaps in the legal, administrative, and social treatment of

Australia’s policies in regard to asylum seekers and refugee processing, are viewed as very controversial, and often inhumane by the international community (Lock, Quenault & Tomlinson 2002, p.37). To discuss this policy, I will apply an external analysis. In order to decide whether this policy is seen as good or bad, through a social, economic and human rights perspective.

In this paper, I will be discussing the recent political issue about the ban imposed on refugees from the Muslim-dominant nations into the United States. The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, on the 27th of January 2017 issued an executive order banning immigrants from seven countries into the United States. The issue that informed the ban was the security threat that the immigrants posed to the United States because most terrorist groups have an Islamic background. While this move by the president might have been backed with the best of intentions from the top of the government, it stirred up a lot of commotion from the citizens and humanitarian organizations questioning the morality and the justification of the order.

Petitioner, Tarek Dali, entered the United States on or about December 23, 2010, seeking refuge from political persecution he suffered at the hands of the Tunisian government. (cite). He initially sought asylum relief on November 14, 2011; however, the Department of Homeland Security’s (hereinafter “DHS”) asylum office denied his application on January 17, 2013. (cite). On February 11, 2013, the DHS filed a notice to appear and Mr. Dali was subsequently placed in removal proceedings. (cite). Mr. Dali appeared before the immigration court on November 10, 2014, where he renewed his application for asylum relief. The immigration judge (hereinafter “IJ”) held a hearing on the matter and denied Dali’s application for asylum. (cite). The IJ found that in respects to the elements of a refugee, Mr. Dali established that for all the harms he alleged, the government was either responsible for the persecution or abdicated to the actions of the private actors, the harms Mr. Dali suffered were on account of his political opinion, but the harms Mr. Dali suffered in Tunisia did not rise to the level persecution. Therefore, Mr. Dali was not a refugee and consequently not entitled to Asylum.

Bureaucratic discretion – also known as “bureaucratic disentitlement” – is often written into a policy with the explicit intent of restricting access to benefits (Heinrich, 2016). Inconsistent communication, duplicated document requests, and the lack of designated case workers suggest that the policy was not designed with optimum effectiveness in mind. Additionally, one of the major components of the SIV application process required an applicant to establish that they are experiencing an ongoing serious threat because of their employment with the United States Government. In addition, the threat had to be corroborated through a risk assessment conducted by the Chief of Mission or a designee of the Chief of Mission (Congress, 2008). Requiring an individual to provide evidence that their life is in danger – and that the danger is due to their employment with the U.S. government and not due to other factors – before accepting their application produces a perverse incentive for an individual to wait to seek asylum until their situation becomes the most precarious. As many applicants found out, even when there was evidence of a substantial threat, the byzantine application process did not grant them refugee status before harm befell them and their families (Oliver, 2014; Johnson, 2013). If maximum take-up of the program was the desired outcome, the policy should have been designed to reduce

Transition to second main point: ISIS has made it difficult on the United States and many other countries, mainly in Europe because of the sheer volume of refugees. II. The United States is wary of granting asylum to refugees due safety reasons associated with Syria. Syria is in a dangerous state and their files on citizens are incomplete and unreliable. By taking extra precautions and scrutinizing the refugees carefully, it will allow us to take in as many as possible without putting the United States at risk of inadvertently permitting a terrorist to enter under the auspices of a

Although the movement of refugees coming into the United States has been one that has continued throughout decades, past years have constituted for change in the progression of change to the aid and intake of refugees, being considered one of the worst humanitarian crisis in history. As the United States has upheld its origins as a nation of peoples of all creeds, colors, and cultures through morals of inclusion of refugee and migrant groups, recent debate and thus legislation has threatened that belief and the relative aid it has come to provide. The United States should not only continue the support it gave refugees before the Trump administration, but increase such aid and allowance of entrance, as the crisis continues

My proposal focuses on the Syrian refugee crisis in the United States. Specifically, my proposal will deal with American attitudes towards refugees fleeing their country and what we could do better to help them adapt to this country. This topic is important in today’s society because with the election of Donald J. Trump, the rise of xenophobia and islamophobia has occurred.

Goodwin-Gill, G.S. 2008. The politics of refugee protection. Refugee survey quarterly 27(1), pp. 8-23. [Online]. Available at:

In this reflection I respond to the article “Asylum abuse: Is it overwhelming our borders?: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary” which was published in (Judiciary.house.gov) on December 12th , 2013. The article reveals many important topics, the one topic I found most relevant and interesting to talk about is “Credible fear”. United States is well known to protect refugees who have fear in returning to their homeland under any circumstances.