Flashback: Obama Said Crime And Poverty Are Not Qualifiers For Asylum
Jason Hopkins
Immigration and politics reporter
July 16, 2019 2:38 PM ET
While in office, President Barack Obama said that poverty and crime alone are not justifications for asylum claims, comments that closely mirror the sentiment of the Trump administration.
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nder U.S. law, we admit a certain number of refugees from all around the world based on some fairly narrow criteria. And typically, refugee status is not granted just based on economic need or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood or poverty. It’s typically defined fairly narrowly — the state, for example, that was targeting political activists and they need to get out of the country for fear of prosecution or even death,†Obama said in July 2014.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/16/obama-poverty-not-claim-for-asylum/
