Running for one's life is not a tidy, well-charted path.
I have heard countless stories of desperate escapes in search of safety in my work as an immigration attorney. Families have taken the first bus out of town in a shocked, zombie-like daze after being threatened at gunpoint. They have climbed out of windows carrying nothing while their persecutors debated how to kill them in the next room. They have called in every favor they have ever been owed to get on whatever plane they could as fast as possible. Asylum seekers, by definition, are people fleeing danger.
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