The President

The United States

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This... This is hell.

Remember, mass incarceration is human trafficking.

So, yes, this is hell, the concept of asylum, as our guest today points out, is once an asylum seeks foot on a host country's soil, anyone fleeing political, religious, or identity-based

persecution can make a case for asylum, regardless

of if they entered the country legally or not.

Of course, this is a new, modern convention that only came into existence following

World War II during the post-war years of enshrining what was once known as International

Humanitarian Law, which is now in shambles. Except the process. the post-war years of enshrining what was once known as international humanitarian law,

which is now in shambles.

Except the problem with that statement is,

Asylum is not new at all.

In fact, it dates back to the pre-Christian Romans and the Greeks.

Speaking of Christianity and the Christian nationalists here in the United States

that oppose all immigration, including asylum, today's guest cites a past guest on the show nationalists here in the United States that oppose all immigration,

including asylum. Today's guest cites a past guest on the show, many past guests on the show,

but one in particular, journalist and author John Washington, explaining in his 2020 book,

The Dispossessed, A Story of Asylum in the U.S.-Mexican Border and Beyond,

that Roman imperial law transformed this concept of a sacred location

exempt from ordinary threats into a more formalized idea of sanctuary between the walls

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