Refugee and immigrants rights attorney Melanie Nezer shares an urgently needed historical perspective on the crisis at the southern US border, showing how citizens can hold their governments accountable for protecting the vulnerable. "A country shows strength through compassion and pragmatism, not through force and through fear," she says.
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Its a fundamental right to _seek_ it. Not a fundamental right to _get_ it.
Why doesn’t TED Talks just come out and say “Your house and your wife isn’t just for you either.”
Max B. …LOL Nope
95% of seekers from South of America, not South America since it’s not America are denied asylum because they are not seeking it but instead are lying, they specifically now use children as a means of breaking into America, they recycle them like things, reuse them because our laws state if you come in with kids you must be granted entry.
@Funky Pants your attack is invading my safe space.
Asylum being different from the border crises issues many countries are wrestling with.
it’s only different because we are in the news! Same Dog, different breed!
Mexiko and Türkey who are paid to keep foring citizens at their borders?
*drone strikes a school* where are all these brown people coming from?
The world has allot of poor and bad things happening to people. But we need to help American homeless. Allot of them fought to help keep this country a free country. But we need to help our own people first. Have you seen these homeless encampments? It is worse then third world countries. It is just as dangerous being homeless. Gangs burning random homeless for some sort of gang thing or the drugs that is everywhere on the streets. I as an American born citizen that worked as a first responder saving people and helping form this country say shut the borders and dont let anyone else in until we clean up our own streets and help our own citizens first. After that then sure lets help others.
Reality always interferes..
Compassion and help, but not mindless bleeding heart save the world rhetoric.
talk to people in border towns, talk to all the people moving out of CA, talk to some border patrol officers.
I’m sure that your family came across to America LEGALLY not trying to circumvent the law. Unlike the people who are trying to ILLEGALLY cross the border. You want in? Do it legally. End of story
Anyone getting Tom Homan and AOC flashbacks? XD
Good speech, but your facts are off the mark. The part you forgot is that there is no crisis when people come to the gate and request asylum. The problem is people sneaking across the border and then trying to claim asylum after they get caught.
Nearly 400,000 people were caught last Lear. A full 43% of them didn’t come back for their court date. THAT is what led to this crisis.
Too many questions to ask your supposed facts. What does sneaking across imply, that people actually know where the border is? What are you assuming here buddy. Is 400k people a real number or made up? What crisis do you mean, the fake border crisis, or the mistreatment of refugees crisis.
@Josef K Glad you asked. Sneaking across means deliberately entering the United States by crossing the border not at a lawful point of entry where no immediate exigent circumstance exists. The number of arrests in 2018 was slightly more than 396,000 according to CBP. I’m referring to the fake mistreatment of refugees crisis.
What if asylum seekers are not acting in good faith? What if they are lying about their claims? What if they are being groomed by open borders advocacy groups, like Pueblo Sin Fronteras?
What if none of that is true and people just want to kick out immigrants because of nonsense they saw on Fox News? What if Fox News routinely lies and uses actual, literal logical fallacies during supposedly serious news broadcasts?
What if people are dying pointlessly because “better safe than sorry” was prioritized over reality itself.
Aaron Hancock There is a backlog of 900,000 asylum cases in US courts with a wait period of up to 2-3 years for a hearing. If the phony asylum seekers are detained, that’s an extra burden on the immigration system, the tax payers and legitimate asylum seekers, whose numbers are few. For those asylum seekers released into the community, only about 45% show up for their hearings- the rest disappear into the the underground community of illegal aliens. If asylum seekers who are really economic migrants have been groomed by sophisticated open border advocacy groups on what to say and how to act, they may get asylum on false pretenses, and by doing so, attract even more false asylum claims by people who know they can game the system. The system only works if people act in good faith.
They’re Muslims, they always act in their faith, the bad faith, the one laid before them by the pedophile slave owning genocidal psychopath Muhammad, the one they call the perfect chosen one, whos really another Ghangus Khan and Hitler.
Your question implies that you do not know for certain that their claims are false. So why do you choose to distrust your fellow men instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt?
Are you done JAQing off?
So fleeing from the holocaust and WW2 is the same now as running away from poverty instead of changing it? I spit on this
Hmm I doubt a single person can do much about their country, especially if the government is corrupt.
Tedtalks = tumblr
*looks at title of video*
*looks at like/dislike ratio*
Ooooooh boy, to the comments! Let me grab my popcorn
@Naci Rema How about with no pity for the dumb and weak. Which is exactly opposite of what you said. Fight for your country, if you can’t fight for your country don’t come here thinking you will never have to fight for freedom.
@mr_ anheuser or served in the military.
@Jake Fournier Nationalism is an imposition from governments for dummies like you. I fight for people. I transcend barriers. I am wiser than you, I think for myself not from what a government tells me to believe in. “Country”, lol. Such a weak mind you have.
@Naci Rema Jesus Christ, never have I ever read a more pretentious, arrogant, stuck-up, self-delusional and pseudointellectual tripe as what you just shat out. Yuck. Congratulations Herr “Übermensch”, you just transcended the mortal plane and arrived at the very source of human stupidity.
@mr_ anheuser Got you, triggered you. Nailed it. Now, grow up. Become a citizen, not a useful idiot for patriotic rhetoric imposed to you. Transcend.
If people want to help a refugee, they should agree to ‘privately sponsor one or a family’, financially, legally and physically. This means, pay for housing, food, clothing, medical expenses, education etc and volunteer to help them find a job and get settled. Either invite them into your own home, and settle them into space there, or find them an apartment and pay their bills while they get settled in. Once they are settled in, and on their own, then the person who wants to help should start again with another refugee or refugee family. Many people want to help others, but they choose to spend their time and money helping homeless people in their own city, or volunteering and donating to local hospitals, or raising money to help cure diseases, or volunteer to help seniors, or volunteer to help Veterans who are suffering from PTSD, etc. This woman’s heart goes to ‘refugees’…….other people’s heart goes to homeless people or addicts or Veterans in Canada or elsewhere. There are many many ’causes’ and they all need help.
Why should you pay for their *everything*? They can get a job themselves…
*If they are seeking asylum* they shouldn’t illegally cross the border. just go through the ports of entry and *do it the legal way.*
What if you were a refugee? Would you go through a lengthy legal process or just run right in?They’re going to skip past that if it takes too long just like anyone else would, and if you think you’d do different then you’re either a) completely wrong, or b) the type of personality that nature selects against.
Only by technicality. The whole system is designed to prevent anyone from getting in. It’s specifically designed to be pointlessly cruel, and it reflects a stone age mentality that assumes that prosperity is impossible when America could literally have prosperity if they just stopped worshiping rich people.
Noah Williams waiting under 180 days is much better than illegally entering, getting taken by ice, and getting deported back tbh
@dooby boody
That’s right.
america cannot accept 50-100million people from these countries…
I wonder where all of us Americans will go to seek asylum after congress hands us over to Russia
If immigrants want to seek asylum, they can do so at a legal port of entry.
theres no funamental right of asylum, to havea phone, to earn a middle class wage etc etc etc you cant just call nice things fundamental rights
Can’t finish watching this. She’s starting to sound just like AOC.
Why peoples become refugees?
Who make theme refugees?
Have you ever thought about this ?
Can someone answer about that?
A have thousands of question but i know no one have answer.
Thank you for not answering
Remember when TED was good?
Me neither.