Is a Global Sanctuary Movement an Answer to the Refugee Crisis?

[TomSea]

Is a Global Sanctuary Movement an Answer to the Refugee Crisis?
Derek Burnett

It’s spring in North Carolina, and although Juana Luz Tobar Ortega is not free to go home or to wander out in the world, she would like to feel the sun on her face. She exits the building but, never straying far from its brick walls, takes a seat on a stone bench and crosses her feet, one of which bears an electronic ankle monitor. The air is fresh, the sunlight warm. But this is as far as she will go.

The building against her back, where she’s been living these past nine months, is not a prison. It is Greensboro’s St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, and it’s the only thing keeping her from being deported to her native Guatemala and separated from her four children and two grandchildren. Juana lives here in defiance of a deportation order that, to her and the members of this congregation, is unjust and inhumane given that she fled her country after multiple death threats by guerillas and has been a member of her community since her arrival in 1990. While lawyers work on her case and her family petitions their elected representatives to act on her behalf, Juana whiles away her days cleaning the church, cooking, and sewing. The authorities know that she is here. There is an understanding that ICE will not enter the building to arrest her, but that’s all it is — an understanding.

Read more at: https://sojo.net/articles/global-sanctuary-movement-answer-refugee-crisis

[Fishrrman]

No.

The best answer to "the refugee crisis" is to provide NO "sanctuary" at all.

Force the would-be refugees to settle the problems they have themselves.

[TomSea]

When I first read this, I thought maybe it was talking about the idea of one big "sanctuary" land somewhere.  That I might think of. Could there be some land, somewhere, for them to go without going to Europe or the US, Australia or other places where they might be a burden to society.