This is about Humanity
We’re about community.
This Is About Humanity is a community dedicated to raising awareness about separated and reunified families and children at the border.
We educate others on being allies and advocates, and through our proximate trips to the border and our This is About Humanity fiscal sponsorship fund at the International Community Foundation we help support those individuals with essentials for living, access to legal services, mental wellness checkups, and other shelter projects. We also provide for a range of projects including educational bus trips to the border, donations to legal services, construction projects at shelters, as well as material goods for unaccompanied minors.
This Is About Humanity was founded in 2018.
We’re about the issues.
What is Asylum?
What is Family Separation?
What is Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)?
What is metering?
What is a ‘Safe Third-Party Agreement’?
Changes to Asylum in the United States
This summary helps showcase the changes to the myriad of rules and policies targeting the U.S. asylum system; and violations U.S. and international laws in the process. These policies include “zero tolerance,” which caused family separations at the border, the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which strands people in Mexico who are seeking asylum, metering at ports of entry, restricting credible fear standards, forcing dangerous neighboring countries to sign “safe third-country” agreements, banning people from applying for asylum if they cross outside a port of entry or if they pass through a third country, and expediting the deportation of asylum seekers.
What is Asylum?
Asylum is a protection granted to individuals already in the United States or at the border who meet the international law definition of a “refugee," or someone who is unable to return to their home country, and cannot obtain protection in that country. This can be due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future “on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” The U.S. signed onto an international agreement, the 1968 Protocol, and through U.S. immigration law, the United States has a legal obligation to provide protection to those who qualify as refugees. As a result, the Refugee Act established two paths to obtain refugee status, either (1) from abroad as a resettled refugee or (2) in the United States as an asylum seeker.
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Where:
Los Angeles
Date Posted:
August 31st 2021
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Kids
Teens
People 55+
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