Title: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Three Reasons People Flee Home - Preemptive Love
Headings: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Three Reasons People Flee Home
Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants: Three Reasons People Flee Home
Preserving Safety
Preserving Family
Preserving Normalcy

Content: In many countries, governments do not protect the rights of the vulnerable or oppressed. Women, children, the disabled all have limited power. Minorities and members of the LGBTQ community face persecution. Victims of domestic violence may be fleeing in order to keep their children and families safe, because their governments won’t. Some families pay extra money —money they may not have—for their kids to attend different schools in order to keep their children safe from gangs. Gangs often begin recruiting boys between the ages of 6 and 12. Young girls aren’t safe either; they are often either recruited for gang membership or targeted for sexual abuse. Many families that travel to the United States know they’re at risk of being separated from their families due to stricter immigration laws. But even this has not proved a deterrent.