The Asylum Seeker. For a chance at a better life, it helps - to make your bad story worse. Posted: Jun 22nd, 2018 - 4:02 pm
A friend of mine, a former lawyer who has represented people in asylum cases, had recently told me about the difficulty of making a persuasive asylum plea these days. “The immigration people know the stories. There’s one for each country. There’s the Colombian rape story—they all say they were raped by the farc. There’s the Rwandan rape story, the Tibetan refugee story. The details for each are the same.”
It is not enough for asylum applicants to say that they were threatened, or even beaten. They have to furnish horror stories. It’s not enough to say that they were raped. The officials require details. Inevitably, these atrocity stories are inflated, as new applicants for asylum get more inventive about what was done to them, competing with the lore that has already been established, with applicants whose stories, both real and fake, are so much more dramatic, whose plight is so much more perilous, than theirs.
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