Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by AlexandrB 2201 days ago
The inconvenient truth is that many illegal immigrants from South America are refugees from various US-backed coups, dictatorships, and war-on-drugs fuelled drug cartels. Unfortunately they can't always claim refugee status on these grounds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f...