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Undercover cameras captured the Executive Director of NGO Advocates Abroad boasting about preparing refugees to lie, act, and claim to be Christians in order to be waived through the vetting process and allowed to enter Europe. Ariel Ricker, and American, was filmed at a cafe in Greece admitting to coaching migrants to lie about abuse they never actually suffered in their home countries. She also says she gives migrants lessons on Christianity, so they can pose as Christians during the process. Perhaps most shocking of all- Ricker says her organization "works with smugglers. In fact, we all do." Here is the video-
Transcript: "This is all like a big theatre production, everyone has a part to play and a refugee has to act the part of the refugee in trauma for the interviewers, but it is extremely difficult to do this because unless they are taught how to be this character, this actor, then they go about it usually the opposite way. I see it like, I tell them that this is acting, all of this is acting […] it’s all acting as though this is theatre. So for them to get through they must act their part in the theatre and that is the refugee in trauma, because these EASO officers are so ****ing stupid all they know is what’s written on the paper, EASO says ‘this is refugee in trauma, they have these characteristics’ so we coach people how to have these characteristics.
They also ask like whats your favourite holiday, some people say like Christmas and but like we explain you cannot just say this because this is not a sufficient answer, you have to say, you have to say it a certain way which is like ‘December 25th which is Christmas, which is the birthday of our Lord and Saviour. So like um there’s a formula we came up with which is ironic because I suck at formulas, but its like ‘significant event, date and location.’ So [unintelligible] to answer all the questions the same way; ‘in December 2017 in Izmir in Turkey I was threatened for being a Christian because my boss and his friends jumped me when I was leaving my church. This is the Bible they tried to tear up, this is the crucifix I was wearing that they tried to tear, and they made me feel unsafe as a Christian in Turkey.’ Ba-boom. And that way you have the event, the date and the location so you’ve given them a very specific answer, and you’ve kept it to be a tight, short answer as well […] and it’s much harder to refute because you have all the elements there."
Ricker even admits to being involved with smugglers.
“So the leader [of ERCI] was properly involved with smugglers?” the undercover journalist asks.
Ricker replied confidently, “of course they were, I mean we all are to some degree, like there’s no question of that. But it’s like how involved you are, how much you want to be involved […] some people will draw the line at being in cahoots with a trafficker but they won’t with a smuggler.”
Ricker's online bio is quite interesting: "Ariel Ricker currently serves as the Executive Director of Advocates Abroad, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to refugee legal aid throughout Europe and the Middle East.Ricker has studied historical genocidal consequences on present day religious communities in Jerusalem, Israel. She has worked in human rights defense and state leader immunity claims in Geneva, Switzerland and, most recently, as a legislative research attorney for the Hawaii State Senate.Ricker earned her Juris Doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law, concentrating on international humanitarian law and sovereign debt lending and borrowing practices."
Ariel Ricker | William Mitchell College of Law - Academia.edu
https://advocatesabroad.org/
Transcript: "This is all like a big theatre production, everyone has a part to play and a refugee has to act the part of the refugee in trauma for the interviewers, but it is extremely difficult to do this because unless they are taught how to be this character, this actor, then they go about it usually the opposite way. I see it like, I tell them that this is acting, all of this is acting […] it’s all acting as though this is theatre. So for them to get through they must act their part in the theatre and that is the refugee in trauma, because these EASO officers are so ****ing stupid all they know is what’s written on the paper, EASO says ‘this is refugee in trauma, they have these characteristics’ so we coach people how to have these characteristics.
They also ask like whats your favourite holiday, some people say like Christmas and but like we explain you cannot just say this because this is not a sufficient answer, you have to say, you have to say it a certain way which is like ‘December 25th which is Christmas, which is the birthday of our Lord and Saviour. So like um there’s a formula we came up with which is ironic because I suck at formulas, but its like ‘significant event, date and location.’ So [unintelligible] to answer all the questions the same way; ‘in December 2017 in Izmir in Turkey I was threatened for being a Christian because my boss and his friends jumped me when I was leaving my church. This is the Bible they tried to tear up, this is the crucifix I was wearing that they tried to tear, and they made me feel unsafe as a Christian in Turkey.’ Ba-boom. And that way you have the event, the date and the location so you’ve given them a very specific answer, and you’ve kept it to be a tight, short answer as well […] and it’s much harder to refute because you have all the elements there."
Ricker even admits to being involved with smugglers.
“So the leader [of ERCI] was properly involved with smugglers?” the undercover journalist asks.
Ricker replied confidently, “of course they were, I mean we all are to some degree, like there’s no question of that. But it’s like how involved you are, how much you want to be involved […] some people will draw the line at being in cahoots with a trafficker but they won’t with a smuggler.”
Ricker's online bio is quite interesting: "Ariel Ricker currently serves as the Executive Director of Advocates Abroad, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to refugee legal aid throughout Europe and the Middle East.Ricker has studied historical genocidal consequences on present day religious communities in Jerusalem, Israel. She has worked in human rights defense and state leader immunity claims in Geneva, Switzerland and, most recently, as a legislative research attorney for the Hawaii State Senate.Ricker earned her Juris Doctor degree from William Mitchell College of Law, concentrating on international humanitarian law and sovereign debt lending and borrowing practices."
Ariel Ricker | William Mitchell College of Law - Academia.edu
https://advocatesabroad.org/