Steven Huber Democracy Now Analysis # 4

Steven Huber

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Democracy Now Analysis #4

4/24/2016

 

#Deported2Death: Why Did Obama Deport 85 Muslim Asylum Seekers?

            During the week of April 8, 2016, Obama had deported 85 Muslim asylum seekers back to their violent home countries. Many of these immigrants were held in for-profit correctional facilities for years. This is the first time President Obama has deported asylum seekers and it won't be his last. Soon after he also deported 100 south Asian's that were seeking safety from their violent countries. So for all the people that downgrade Trump. Maybe you should take a closer look in your own back yard before you go about chastising others. Fahd Ahmed the executive director of Desis Rising Up and Moving, says these South East Asian refugees are being put in detention centers as soon as they arrive in America. President Obama said he gave the refugees all a chance to declare their innocence. Ahmed states they didn't have a chance to prove to Obama that they deserve to stay in America. President Obama set these people up for failure by keeping them in detention centers and not allowing them to get the paperwork needed to prove they are allowed asylum. According to Ahmed there is proof that the reason for the Muslim/South East Asian's deportation is because of the United States discrimination towards them. More evidence of the treatment of these refugees' was gathered from a deported refugee himself. He said whatever proof of paper work shown to the U.S. government wasn't believed to be legitimate. He said no matter how much poof they had, the Americans said they would never grant them political asylum. While in these detention centers the people were treaded horribly. Their hands and feet were all tied to one another for three days at a time. Another careless act committed on these people was that they were put in body bags alive and they were not fed for the entire journey. After two years in captivity these detainees took to hunger strikes as a way to bring notice to their political unfairness. If it weren't for this social movement coming together. The public would have never been aware of this issue and these people probably would still be in these detainee camps. This type of social movement is known as political opportunity. This social movement succeeds when they take action at the right time.