"Asylum is available to individuals who can show persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. And the persecution must be perpetrated by the applicant’s home-state government or parties that it is unable, or unwilling, to control. That standard is intentionally very narrow. Asylum was never meant to be a general avenue of immigration, available to anyone who has been the victim of any unpleasant behavior by suspect characters in his country-of-citizenship.
Governments have a duty to protect their citizens but they can’t be everywhere, all the time, and protect every inhabitant from any kind of negative consequences. Simply put, we can’t give asylum to everyone who becomes the victim of a crime in a country where some of the police may be corrupt and some of the courts may be a bit dodgy."
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