Leftist migrant advocates across the country met Thursday championing “never again” in light of the state of asylum access for LGBTQ people.
According to The Jerusalem Post, “never again” is a Holocaust remembrance phrase that has become somewhat universal for such issues. The connection to the Holocaust appears to be a phenomenon by the Left when advocating LGBTQ issues, aside from referring to conservatives as “Nazis.”
The AP recently reported that a giant pink triangle canvas was displayed in San Francisco to push back against conservative lawmakers allegedly impeding LGBTQ rights.
Nazis used the pink triangle during the Holocaust to identify gay prisoners in concentration camps. Gay rights advocates later appropriated the symbol, according to the AP.
This assembly of leftists believed the usage was fair in discussing problems LGBTQ individuals face when applying for asylum in the US.
Aaron Morris, the Executive Director of Immigration Equality, “the nation’s leading LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrant rights organization,” began the talk with the right to asylum.
“You do not need permission from the US government to apply for asylum,” he stated.
Morris referred to asylum as a “fundamental right,” and as immigration laws stand, they will “cost of the lives of some queer people, and subject others to persecution and torture.”
Morris and Estuardo Cifuentes, a former migrant who was sent back to Mexico under the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), slammed the new Biden so-called “transit ban,” which mandates migrants to take advantage of asylum in other countries prior to applying in the US, according to NBC News.
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Cifuentes, now comfortably in the US and advocating for more migration with Lawyers for Good Government’s Project Corazon, commented on the “lack of security, the lack of food, [and] the lack of shelters” afforded to migrants. He admitted the migration process to be dangerous but did not acknowledge the evident self-responsibility in taking such a trek.
Dr. Emil’ Keme of the International Mayan League took another approach citing the religiosity of South America, particularly El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
“It represents the conservative sentiment of the government and the majority of the population that endangers the lives of our peoples,” commented Keme. “...In the context of impunity, corruption, homophobia, patriarchy, many members of the LGBTQ+ community have no option but to flee, to save their lives.”
The migration issues against LGBTQ aren’t solely about sexuality or orientation, either. Zack Mohamed of the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project said, “Anti Blackness is global” and that there needed to be “language justice,” although he didn’t elaborate further on the latter.
The once Somali refugee proclaimed, “Black folks globally are being displaced at high records due to laws that are being placed, especially attacking and persecuting LGBTQ folks.”
He said this is occurring in Ghana, Jamaica, and parts of Central America, adding, “Anti Blackness is global, and as they are forced to flee their homes and seek a new home in the US, they’re often met with, as many of my fellow colleagues have shared, persecution, their traumas being exacerbated and criminalized for just seeking safety, for being who they are. They have not committed a crime.”
Nicole Ramos of Al Otro Lado, probably the boldest out of the bunch, added to Mohamed’s assessment, commenting, “We should not be in the business of begging for the lives of queer people to be saved on land that is stolen, in a country that was built on the backs of slavery.”
“Biden ran on restoring access to asylum,” Ramos said. “He knew Title 42 was going to end. He could have prepared for it, and instead, he implemented an asylum ban that effectively does the same thing as Title 42.”
She then told Townhall, “We are not as prepared as we can be in a situation of our own making. And if we want to ask, can we receive all of these people, we should also be looking at our foreign policy that creates these conditions. …After World War II, we collectively said, ‘never again.’”
Ramos then upbraided the Biden administration for allowing refugees from war-torn Ukraine, claiming families were not separated, not masked and not vaccinated.
“The only answer to that is systemic racism,” she concluded. “We welcome the white refugee and [with] the black and the brown refugee, we think of every restriction possible to make sure that they never even gain access to the door.”
To these leftists, LGBTQ and nonwhite migrants face undeniable discrimination comparable to the state-sponsored killing of six million people. Attaching the Holocaust to modern-day immigration and LGBTQ woes seems like a radical trend for the Left. Oppressor and victim dynamics are weighted, making this progressive interpretation of reality somewhat questionable.
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