the piece suggests that asylum is misused by people who face no domestic persecution and even no great desperation, but merely ambition to live a much better life and a willingness to suffer and accept risks to achieve it. 1/

(it doesn't really emphasize the asylum piece, right? it just mentions obliquely, "If asked questions, they are told to say they don’t feel safe in India." it's not clear whether all of these migrants seek asylum, or whether many simply try to live undocumented and undetected?) 2/

beyond a case study in abuse of the intended purpose of asylum as a category, perhaps a case study more generally that not all migrants are particularly sympathetic relative to ill-done domestic constituencies, what lessons do you pull from it? /fin