Opinion | Asylum seekers are not 'gaming the system'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Asylum is a legal and human right for all people, born of our own recognition that every human being has the right to seek a life of safety and dignity.
50% : To say that people seeking asylum in the United States are "gaming the system," as Fareed Zakaria did in his Aug. 14 op-ed, "Immigration can be fixed.
44% : Access to asylum in the United States remains critical because many of the countries that individuals are fleeing from and through cannot or will not protect them from violence.
39% : Women, girls and other survivors of gender-based violence seeking asylum are being denied refuge and forced to remain in conditions along our border that increase their susceptibility to the same kinds of violence and threats to their lives that forced them to flee in the first place.
25% : Calling on people to claim asylum in their home countries revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of the asylum ban and asylum itself.

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