by Fabiola Olvera Benitez | Oct 23, 2024 | Asylum, Blog, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts
We currently have a complex immigration system of laws and policies at our border that function to ensnare people seeking safety into a further labyrinth of confusion and suffering. While there are also built in regulations and procedures to safeguard the human rights...
by Fabiola Olvera Benitez | Sep 17, 2024 | Asylum, Blog, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts
Migration has occurred since biblical times and is not a new phenomenon. People migrate for a multitude of reasons. One of these reasons is for religious persecution which is a protected ground under the refugee convention and in U.S. asylum laws. Today there...
by Fabiola Olvera Benitez | Aug 23, 2024 | Asylum, Blog, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts
“The U.S. immigration system goes against religious values, especially Unitarian Universalist values.” “This system is the antithesis to seeing people as human.” “We keep hearing about this idea of restoring dignity but dignity is not revocable.” These were some of...
by Fabiola Olvera Benitez | Aug 8, 2024 | Asylum, Blog, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts
The Rhizome Center for Migrants hosts a one-week immersive learning experience in Guadalajara, Mexico. I am part of the 10th immigration learning group cohort in attendance with some brilliant immigration professionals including an immigration law professor, an...
by Fabiola Olvera Benitez | Jul 12, 2024 | Asylum, Blog, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts
Climate Migration and Hurricane Beryl From Africa to Canada, where it is now a “post-tropical cyclone”, there is no barrier, wall high enough, or restrictive immigration laws that could have contained the destruction and death that hurricane Beryl left in its...
