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Nobody " jumped the line," there is no "line." It's dumb concepts like that that keep this nonsense going. There isn't one line, there are immigration offices all over the country, and she went through the process locally, in an area with a much higher rate of immigration than most places, with the facilities to handle it. Nobody had to wait longer, or was refused because of how my friend came here. Stop using that ignorant reason to excuse your bigotry.
She was from Venezuela, which is occupied by an authoritarian government. It wouldn't have been possible for her to navigate the situation from Venezuela. In the absence of the ability to emigrate legally out of Venezuela, the people cobbled together a system to come to America in a technically illegal manner, but immediately get into the legal asylum system. My friend was introduced to this "system" through her church, which had helped other people do the same thing.
Many, many people came here like she did, and when she arrived, she stayed in an apartment with three other Venezuelans, all of whom were going through the same asylum process, and my friend used their lawyer.
The US government even had a special program for Venezuelans and other oppressed nations. Trump cancelled that program, and instantly declared all those that were here under the protection of that law, over 200,000 people, to be criminals. Luckily my friend became a US citizen last December, just before Trump took office. The only thing that was standing between being a law-abiding American citizen, and being a vicious Venezuelan gang member, was a few short weeks of time.