What is the author's purpose in this excerpt? to express an opinion about US asylum policies to prompt feelings of sympathy in the reader to suggest a suspenseful atmosphere about the asylum process to provide facts and details about Cambodian and Haitian children

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If many children don't meet strict asylum criteria but face significant dangers if they return, the United States should consider allowing them to stay using humanitarian parole procedures we have employed in the past, for Cambodians and Haitians. It may be possible to transfer children and resettle them in other safe countries willing to share the burden.

What is the author's purpose in this excerpt? to express an opinion about US asylum policies to prompt feelings of sympathy in the reader to suggest a suspenseful atmosphere about the asylum process to provide facts and details about Cambodian and Haitian children

to express an opinion about US asylum policies

Explanation:

The text shows how the United States has a duty to take responsibility for immigrant children who do not meet the guidelines for staying in asylums, but are at great risk of life when sent back to their countries of origin. "Returning" these children can be tantamount to handing them over to death, so the United States, as a country with resources and a stable economy, must take responsibility for these children, on an ethical basis.

This is the author's opinion on asylum policies in the USA.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.