Responses to: UNHCR “1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees”

Define American “Words Matter”

Tal Kopan, “Justice Department: Use ‘illegal aliens,’ not ‘undocumented’” CNN 

• The 1951 convention defines as refugee to anyone seeking asylum because they are being or have been persecuted against their nationality, race, political belief, religion.
• Anyone who has committed a crime against humanity and/or war crimes does not fall into the definition of a refugee.
• The word “refugees” is barely use in media or government I can’t really remember when was the last time I heard it in a news outlet, however if I am not wrong, some media do call people refuges, but when they are reporting news on other countries or areas outside of United States. On the contrary when they cover similar news in the US, then they call the refugees “Illegal Aliens” or “Undocumented Individuals”
• People and the 1951 convention avoid using these terms I just mentioned because the are discriminatory, even the public knows these words have a bad meaning and people should not be call like that. However, the DOJ seems to like these terminologies because to them all refugees have done something that is illegal; therefore, they are criminals and they don’t deserve the decency of being call a “refugee” even though that’s not what the 1951  Convention states.

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Questions 

if refugees are supposed to be treat fairly according to the 1951 Convention why are they not being treat like that?

why is DHS, USCIS and ICE deporting people who are asylum seekers to their home country when the Convention of 1951 states that no one should be expelled or returned against their will?