Your call to “Scrap the asylum system” (July 12th) makes some good points about the strains that international refugee law faces, but you ignore some merits of the status quo. Let me focus on the bedrock of the legal regime, the 1951 convention relating to the status of refugees and its 1967 protocol. You say it would be an “exaggeration…but not a wild one” to call them irrelevant. With all respect, that does not stand up to examination.