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Sorry Saagar... "We" don't get to have a "say" ... per se... regarding how our taxes are used [short of elections].
I would L O V E to assign all my taxes to ONLY education and NOTHING to military weapons. But, I know that would be a debilitating administerial hellscape.
I really appreciate Ryan and Emily's talk about the Salvadorian man deported recently, but they got a key detail incorrect, and that incorrect detail actually answers Will and Emily's "why did he wait 10 years." Argument
1) Ryan, Emily and Will all believe this person was granted asylum. Hence why Will and Emily are skeptical about his claim the threat is still real 10 years later. But he was not granted asylum. Asylum generally (with very few extraordinary excpetions) cannot be claimed if you've been in the country for more than a year.
2) That man's deportation was differed under the protections provided under the Convention Against Torture. While this is like asylum in many ways, it is decidedly not asylum. Asylum grants people the ability to stay in the country and a pathway to citizenship. Defferal of removal under CAT only prevents you from being deported to the country where the risk of torture exists, and it's revokable
3) The other key difference is that asylum claims can be raised ...
