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An '''Asylum seeker''' or '''refugee''', often referred to as a [[Refu|refu]], is an individual who has been displaced from his or her home region due to war and violence; famine or out of fear of persecution, and seeks to live in a foreign nation. | |||
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Complying with its standard immigration laws, the [[Unified Earth Government]] reacted negatively to colonial asylum seekers during the latter years of the [[Human-Covenant War]]. With the ever present threat of being the next colony to be [[glassed]], people from worlds like [[Coral]] gained entry to [[Earth]], being forced into refugee camps. [[Sophia Bossedon]] used underground connections to get an illegitimately-earned [[Wikipedia:Visa (document)|visa]] in order to avoid being caught and sent back. When such "illegal aliens" were forced to suffer the realization that their homeworld had finally been destroyed in [[2552]], Earth continued to intern these people despite there no longer being anywhere to return them to; Sophia was caught up with the post-Coral internment. | |||
In the years immediately after the Human-Covenant War, refugees from the former [[Covenant]] member and client races sought asylum on Earth, leading to the South American city of [[Rio de Janeiro]] becoming a hotspot for migration (whether it has been outfitted for such an event, or is simply a popular destination is uncertain). Not all asylum seekers migrate to a host country for legitimate means; at the time of the [[ | In the years immediately after the Human-Covenant War, refugees from the former [[Covenant]] member and client races sought asylum on Earth, leading to the South American city of [[Rio de Janeiro]] becoming a hotspot for migration (whether it has been outfitted for such an event, or is simply a popular destination is uncertain). Not all asylum seekers migrate to a host country for legitimate means; at the time of the [[Didact]]'s attack on Earth, elements of [[Spartan (branch)|Spartan]] were tasked with stopping a [[Sangheili]] [[terrorism|terrorist]] from detonating a [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon]].<ref>'''[[Spartan Ops]]''' [[S1/Departure|S1E1 ''Departure'']]</ref> | ||
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