President Trump's allies in the Americas are helping block Africans, including many from Cameroon, from making their way to the U.S. to seek asylum. If they can reach U.S. soil, they’re often granted refuge.
In this Feb. 7, 2020, image, an African seeking asylum sits at a hotel in Tijuana, Mexico. Many countries in North and South America are blocking the path for Africans who are struggling to seek asylum in the United States. People from Cameroon and other African nations often win their cases in the United States but they first must reach American soil.
People from Cameroon, who are escaping bloodshed that has killed tens of thousands, often win asylum in the U.S. even more than other Africans, but they first must reach American soil. Most are English speakers fleeing torture inflicted by a French-speaking government at war with separatists. Trump has called asylum “a scam” and adopted several policies to reduce claims, including denying asylum to anyone who passes through another country on the way to the U.S. without seeking refuge there first. Border arrests plummeted 78% in January from a 13-year high in May.
Ecuador’s crackdown comes as Trump dangles a trade deal. He said he was working on it when President Lenin Moreno became the first leader of the small South American nation to meet with a U.S. president in Washington in 17 years.“Ecuador had a very unusual outlook on life but, with your great president, he realizes how important it is to get along with the United States,” Trump told reporters of Moreno.
Bolivia, which is much farther from the U.S. than Ecuador, is the only country in the Americas that accepts people from Cameroon and Eritrea without a visa, according to the. People from Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo are barred from all countries in the Americas without a visa.
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