I do want the child immigrants to be allowed to stay, if it is what is best for them, but I keep wondering how they qualify for asylum. As I understand our law, you need to show that you are one of five classes before you can apply for asylum. You must be being persecuted in your homeland on the basis or race, religion, nationality, political belief, or social group. The children immigrants we are getting are supposedly fleeing violence, but I don't know that they fit in any of the five categories.
Perhaps, none are staying under our asylum laws, as they don't qualify. Perhaps it is just under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 that they are being allowed to stay.
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