I’m in NZ to speak, and just -being-half a world away has dropped my heart rate 15bpm, and I finally just collapsed in exhaustion. Even though it’s only for a few days.
@siderau @hacks4pancakes no joke: not possible yet. You can't ask asylum because you fear -- no matter how well founded that fear is -- eventually you will be in deadly danger. It's for "clear and present danger". Here's two cases when Canada gave asylum to Hungarians lately, you can see they were repeatedly getting credible death threats and one of them was assaulted on the street as well. The US is not *yet* there.
https://www.errc.org/news/canada-grants-former-mep-viktoria-mohacsi-political-asylum
https://www.jta.org/2013/12/04/global/canada-grants-political-asylum-to-hungarian-writer