...Baher Azmy, the legal director of CCR told me that the law “could not be more clear that people must be processed for asylum,” even if they cross not at a port of entry. The Refugee Convention article also states that countries “shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened…enter or are present in their territory without authorization.”

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