2025-07-10
21 分钟Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
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But first...
We interviewed an asylum seeker called Miguel.
He's from Latin America and his reason
for claiming asylum in Britain is that he says that gangsters in the city where he's from are going to kill him
if he goes back.
Robert Guest is a deputy editor of The Economist and has been reporting around the world speaking to people caught up in a broken global asylum system.
The British authorities, they've been trying to assess this claim for the past seven years,
but it's very hard to do because You know, gangsters don't publish their hit lists.
We don't really know whether he might find safety by moving to a different city or to a different Latin American country.
It's just not something that the authorities are able to process.
And here's the weird bit.
He's married to a doctor,
so he could perfectly well come to the UK as the dependent spouse of an essential worker.