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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1368850" data-attributes="member: 45230"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/383291/what-if-they-were-refugees-mark-krikorian" target="_blank">What If They Were Refugees?</a>They still should be turned away.Why? Because they traveled more than 1,000 miles through a country where they should have claimed asylum, if they were genuinely seeking it.The <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/StatusOfRefugees.aspx" target="_blank">1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees</a> includes this provisionArticle 31 – Refugees unlawfully in the country of refuge1. The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of article 1, enter or are present in their territory without authorization, provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities and show good cause for their illegal entry or presence.<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/383291/what-if-they-were-refugees-mark-krikorian" target="_blank">http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/383291/what-if-they-were-refugees-mark-krikorian</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1368850, member: 45230"] [URL='http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/383291/what-if-they-were-refugees-mark-krikorian']What If They [I]Were[/I] Refugees?[/URL] They still should be turned away. Why? Because they traveled more than 1,000 miles through a country where they should have claimed asylum, if they were genuinely seeking it. The [URL='http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/StatusOfRefugees.aspx']1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees[/URL] includes this provision Article 31 – Refugees unlawfully in the country of refuge 1. The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, [B]coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of article 1[/B], enter or are present in their territory without authorization, provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities and show good cause for their illegal entry or presence. [url]http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/383291/what-if-they-were-refugees-mark-krikorian[/url] [/QUOTE]

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