While I agree NY is more accessible than is often assumed, it’s a lot to ask someone to quickly adapt to simply because it’s within their birth-nation borders.

It would be like turning away central Canadian climate refugees because they hadn’t “sufficiently demonstrated” why Vancouver, specifically, couldn’t provide refuge.

My point is it translates to the same thing the world over: “you’re not welcome here.”

While I sympathize with this woman’s situation, if they granted every person with a stalker asylum the entire system would be so overwhelmed it wouldn’t function.

The article says she claimed the Colorado police wouldn’t help her, but that’s pretty typical, no? It doesn’t detail any of the threats against her but police don’t do anything until a restraining order is obtained. Instead of trying to do that or changing her name she runs to Canada and represents herself for her asylum case? Just a lot of weird things about this story IMO.