i agree people find it abusive and unfair. i’ve increasingly come to think an asylum/economic-migration distinction is incoherent and unsustainable. rather than try to purity-police asylum, we need a normative framework that doesn’t depend on categories of desperation, only some measure of extent.

( i think we should shift to a kind of “price rationing”, as sketched out a bit here. www.interfluidity.com/v2/9548.html )