While I agree NY is more accessible than is often assumed, it’s a lot to ask someone to quickly adapt to simply because it’s within their birth-nation borders.

It would be like turning away central Canadian climate refugees because they hadn’t “sufficiently demonstrated” why Vancouver, specifically, couldn’t provide refuge.

My point is it translates to the same thing the world over: “you’re not welcome here.”

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Canada’s Federal Court has overturned a decision granting refugee status to an American transgender woman who successfully argued that a combination of gun culture and rising transphobia left her at risk of persecution in the United States.

In a decision released this week, Judge Christine Pallotta said the Refugee Appeal Division erred in finding Colorado authorities were incapable of protecting Daria Bloodworth from a roommate she accused of stalking her — and that her safety couldn’t be guaranteed elsewhere in the U.S.

“It was made pretty clear from the get go that this was going to be an uphill battle — winning this thing, or even staying in Canada a little bit longer and not get murdered in the U.S.,” Bloodworth told the CBC.

Bloodworth came to Canada in 2019, seeking refugee protection in relation to claims that she was the target of threats and violence from a former roommate, her former landlord and a debt collection agency.

“The RPD failed to consider how Colorado’s open carry gun laws combined with the general climate of anti-trans hatred growing in the US could make [her] perpetually vulnerable and at risk to her life,” Mohan wrote.

The federal court ruling also says the appeal division failed to determine that internal flight was impossible — saying that “more than evidence demonstrating hardship and disadvantage” was needed to take New York City off the list.

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I don’t even know anymore which timeline this is.

While I sympathize with this woman’s situation, if they granted every person with a stalker asylum the entire system would be so overwhelmed it wouldn’t function.

The article says she claimed the Colorado police wouldn’t help her, but that’s pretty typical, no? It doesn’t detail any of the threats against her but police don’t do anything until a restraining order is obtained. Instead of trying to do that or changing her name she runs to Canada and represents herself for her asylum case? Just a lot of weird things about this story IMO.