(photo: NY Times)
About 633 migrants have been turned away since
January, unable to prove sufficient fear of being tortured or persecuted.
New
York Times, April 5, 2019
Sufficient –
acceptableampleplentifulsatisfactoryagreeable
On the scale of
gobbledygook.
On the scale of fear
what?
“I prefer 1,000 times
being jailed, than being dead.”
Selvin Alvarado, Honduras, 29, father of two
waiting at the US/Mexican border
On the scale of
1-1,000
or on the scale of
being dead
Not sufficient.
“The crisis at our border
is worsening…”
Kirstjen Neilson
Former Director, Dept of Homeland Security, USA
Worsening
on the scale of
Selvin Alvarado
and his two children
or
what?
On the scale of
purgatory
On the scale of
danger violence extortion corruption rape
Not Sufficient.
An ad for a carry-on bag marks the story’s fold:
Travel
without the panic
Keep
everything in one handy place, so you are free to focus on what’s beyond the
airport.
Travel Panic
on a scale of
Sufficiency
focus on what’s beyond
Three Mexican countries
that are not Mexico – quick, name them.
free to focus on
torture – persecution -
fear
everything
in one handy place
Not. Sufficient.
RW
Seattle
04.05.2019
Very effective. Repetition captures sense of fear, the recurring nightmare of being a fugitive, the panic of awakening to find you are still in the nightmare.
ReplyDeleteBob (Las Golondrinas)