Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias
5-4
Prologue Projects
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🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A difference of political opinion is when one person wants the coal industry to get tax breaks, but another person wants the oil industry to get tax breaks. Not wanting to be conscripted into an army to fight in a war against your will is NOT a political opinion. Therefore, it is totally fine for the United States - the nation that instigated the war mind you - to deny you an asylum hearing and send you back to face that certain fate.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll hear our given first this morning number 1913-42, immigration and naturalization service versus |
| 0:07.0 | Hyro-Johnathan Elias Zacharias. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologue Projects. |
| 0:20.0 | On this week's episode of 5-4, Peter, Rianne and Michael are talking about |
| 0:25.0 | high-ensv Elias Zacharias. It's an immigration case in which a man was denied |
| 0:31.0 | an asylum hearing. The government argued that avoiding conscription into a rebel |
| 0:36.0 | army is not a political opinion, and thus Elias Zacharias was not qualified to seek |
| 0:42.0 | asylum on the basis of political persecution. The argument was that just because |
| 0:47.0 | someone is avoiding harm doesn't mean they are politically opposed to the harm. |
| 0:52.0 | Supposing a voter says the reason I'm voting for candidate X is because I'm afraid of |
| 0:58.0 | the harm of losing my job. That'd be a political opinion. They don't understand the |
| 1:03.0 | economic theory and various political dialogues that go on. How would that be different from this? |
| 1:08.0 | As you'll hear, the hosts would argue it's not different, but the court ruled against |
| 1:12.0 | Elias Zacharias and sent him back to Guatemala. This is 5-4, a podcast about how |
| 1:18.0 | much the Supreme Court sucks. Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze |
| 1:28.0 | the Supreme Court cases that have left our nation tired and overburdened, like an |
| 1:32.0 | accountant during tax season. I'm Peter. I'm here with Rianne. You talking personal |
| 1:37.0 | stuff today, Peter? Bring in personal stuff on the podcast. Yeah, look, I, |
| 1:44.0 | so the audience knows I just finished telling Michael and Rianne a bunch of |
| 1:49.0 | information they did not want to hear about my tax season. And ask for advice. |
| 1:54.0 | Big mistake. Yeah. And Michael's here too. Hey, Michael. Everybody. |
| 2:01.0 | Today's case is IMS V. Elias Zacharias. This is a case from 1992 about a man |
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