I guess things weren’t so bad in Honduras, after all.
The U.S. is increasingly aligning itself with wealthy countries in Europe and elsewhere to make asylum a more distant prospect.
On Thursday, American authorities sent a Honduran man from El Paso, Texas, to Guatemala. It marked the first time the U.S. government directed an asylum-seeker back to that country under the new policy, which gave him an option to file a claim there. He decided against filing a claim and returned to Honduras, according to Guatemala’s foreign ministry.
Well, that’s rather telling just what “Asylum” meant to this guy. It meant “USA” and not “I’m fearing for my life and need to start over in a new country.”