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Trump to Sign Immigration Directive Revamping Asylum System
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 7, 2018 | Vivian Salama

Posted on 11/08/2018 8:13:26 AM PST by reaganaut1

WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to sign a directive this week that will make official his plans to revamp the U.S. asylum system, part of his broader push to crack down on undocumented migrants entering the U.S. illegally.

Mr. Trump is expected to sign the directive as early as Friday morning, before leaving on a trip to Paris, administration officials said. Last week, Mr. Trump said he intends to sign a “comprehensive” executive order on the detention of apprehended migrants, including those seeking asylum status.

According to the directive, U.S. officials will require asylum seekers to go to a point of entry along the border and make a claim for asylum, which would bar those who cross illegally. Currently, migrants who cross the border into the U.S. have up to a year to request asylum, regardless of how they got here.

The argument being made by the administration is that this change will enable safer, more orderly processing and better resource planning, an official said.

The officials, who have seen a draft of the directive, said the intention is to implement the directive temporarily, although a time period wasn’t specified.

Mr. Trump said last week he wants to keep undocumented immigrants apprehended at the border in detention until their legal cases are heard, rather than allow them to be released into the U.S. to await a hearing.

The new directive follows Mr. Trump’s order to send thousands of U.S. troops to support border-control efforts. The president has also said he would sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants, a proposal legal scholars say would be unconstitutional.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; asylum; immigration; trump; trumpasylum; trumpillegals; trumpimmigration
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To: livius

” I have no objection to people getting asylum who really need it”

If a million people apply for asylum for a legitimate reason, we can’t grant it to all of them.


21 posted on 11/08/2018 9:17:28 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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22 posted on 11/08/2018 9:30:50 AM PST by bitt ("Let justice be done though the heavens fall".)
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To: reaganaut1

Thank you, POTUS!!


23 posted on 11/08/2018 9:34:50 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: EagleUSA

And of course, the RATS will go nuts about Trump interfering with their voter base machine....

==

Tough frijoles!


24 posted on 11/08/2018 9:35:40 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: reaganaut1

Excellent. This isn’t a football game, where if you get a finger over the goal line you score. Screw that noise! What makes this country great, besides the essential compassion of its people, is that we are a nation of laws. Get rid of that, and the whole thing falls apart - and we elected DJT to be POTUS because we do not have to, and do not want to, stand by while that happens.


25 posted on 11/08/2018 9:45:22 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: TADSLOS; Tennessee Nana

ping


26 posted on 11/08/2018 9:50:42 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

GOOD!


27 posted on 11/08/2018 10:07:37 AM PST by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: reaganaut1

Dems: You can’t stop the caravan, they are seeking asylum and the law says you have to give them a hearing!

Trump: Oh, you mean this law that I can change unilaterally with an Executive Order?


28 posted on 11/08/2018 11:02:18 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: reaganaut1

So the only thing that could stop this quickly is federal judge shopping? Could Congress veto this decision with a majority vote?


29 posted on 11/08/2018 11:53:19 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Prediction: You are not going to see any more “migrant caravans” over the next two years.

There will still be caravans, but they will not be covered by the press as they were leading up to the election. October's caravans were political theater. Now, the mission is to keep pushing more migrants into the USA to create leftist voters. The press will do as they are told and keep quiet until more theater is needed.

30 posted on 11/08/2018 11:53:44 AM PST by ETCM
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To: ETCS

What is the latest news on the “caravans”??? Haven’t heard anything since the elections...


31 posted on 11/08/2018 12:04:16 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: reaganaut1; bitt
***The president has also said he would sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants, a proposal legal scholars say would be unconstitutional***

Johnathan Turley got this right the other night on FNC - it is a brilliant move to force a SCOTUS decision on the 14th Amendment. Naturally, the MSM got it all wrong in order to label DJT 'stupid', 'tyrant', 'dictator' etc. etc. etc.

The MSM really is making itself the enemy of the American people! ...by refusing to properly inform them.

32 posted on 11/08/2018 12:08:37 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: JBW1949
What is the latest news on the “caravans”??? Haven’t heard anything since the elections...

They have outlived their usefulness to the left, and further media coverage would only hurt the cause. I suspect they are mostly being abandoned. The caravans are dissolving into smaller groups. Some will stay in Mexico, some will go home, some will attempt to enter the USA illegally. Very, very few will attempt to apply for asylum at a point of entry. All just assumptions on my part.

33 posted on 11/08/2018 12:15:09 PM PST by ETCM
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To: reaganaut1

“GWB...pickup the White Phone...a Mr Schumer would like to talk with you”


34 posted on 11/08/2018 12:31:46 PM PST by Zathras
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To: reaganaut1

a directive - I worry that Trump’s orders will be erased as quickly as he erased Obama’s orders. Time for Congress to get moving.


35 posted on 11/08/2018 1:17:50 PM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . ")
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To: antidemoncrat
This is true. Thirty years ago when I was working for home builders here in New Jersey the first wave of this garbage came and worked in the industry, driving down wages in the process. This allowed companies like Hovnanian and Toll Brothers to flourish. They would bring along their always pregnant mamsitas who would be pushing out kids faster then fleas breed because they quickly learned more kids meant more welfare. After the housing boom basically ended in 2006 the second wave of this garbage found out they could make just as much of a subsistence level existence, far better then anything in their home countries by just sitting on their ass and not working. The whole idea of sending back remittances fell away because they told the rest of the family to come on up because the gringos gave you everything free and you didn't need to work. These people really are garbage. They HATE us, they feel, for what ever stupid reason that We The People Of The United States owe them all of this. I despise these people.
36 posted on 11/09/2018 1:26:13 AM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: jmacusa

So I wonder how long it will be before some liberal judge declares that Pres. Trump’s executive order that says unless you ask for asylum at a legal port of entry it will not be granted is unconstitutional.


37 posted on 11/09/2018 5:47:51 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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