 Exercise
6: Mapping Texts
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from an editorial for Proyecto Adelante, Dallas The Text With the current changes to immigration law in the United States, it will be virtually impossible for refugees of war-torn countries to seek asylum here. The new laws require all people seeking political asylum in the United States to declare themselves as applicants at the border and testify at the moment of entrance before immigration adjudicates. The adjudicates will hear the people's petitions for asylum and judge on the spot whether the people have credible claims for asylum and reasonable fear of persecution if returned. In each case, the immigration adjudicate will have full responsibility to recommend or deny asylum. In the case of denial of asylum, the applicant will never be eligible for asylum in this country for the rest of his or her life. It's almost a cliché that America is a nation of immigrants. While obviously we cannot accept the hundreds of thousands of people who are persecuted every year within their own countries, nevertheless, there must be some better way to process asylum applications, a way that will honor the most cherished fact of our heritage. Most people arriving in the United States from the terror of persecution have no idea of the legal processes they are engaging or the awesome weight a single hearing will have on the remainder of their lives. Most are fleeing persecution and often torture at the hands of officials in their own countries and have experienced similar abuse by officials in the countries through which they have fled. It's little wonder, then, that in their unsophistication and ignorance of United States immigration law, their reticence to respond forthrightly about their conditions and their situations will only work against them rather than to protect them, even before the most sympathetic adjudicate. We have to find a better way to support legitimate refugees. Click here to see a sample map of the first paragraph above.
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