U.S. Border Crisis: The Differences Between ‘Refugee,’ ‘Asylee’ and ‘Immigrant’
As tens of thousands of children from Latin America await their fate at the U.S. border, media reports and casual conversation have described their status as two very different legal categories: refugee/asylee and immigrant. There is a significant distinction between the two categories, which could play a major factor in the current U.S. border crisis and whether these children get deported or are given permission to remain in the United States.