"What Is a Refugee, Anyway?"

Added July 22, 2017 at 6:33 am

Very troubling that hundreds of West Africans have been granted asylum in Beijing. In Hong Kong, a group of about 50 West Africans (from Gambia) awaiting decisions on asylum applications were arrested by police after a long investigation into a drug dealing network around LFK two years ago. Considering the visibility of West Africans as drug dealers in SLT, allowing hundreds of Liberians and Nigerians to stay awaiting asylum applications is a recipe for creating a big drug dealing community in SLT. If you care about SLT as a community then you should not want West Africans who claim asylum in this neighborhood. It doesn't make sense for anyone claiming to flee fear of persecution or torture to come all the way here from West Africa. There is likely a non-legitimate motive like selling drugs for coming to China to claim asylum.