Posted on 06/13/2020 3:54:25 AM PDT by cotton1706
The Trump administration has proposed a regulation that would deliver its biggest blow to the US asylum system yet, vastly expanding immigration officials’ authority to turn away migrants. If enacted, it would all but close America’s doors to asylum seekers — a signature policy for a president desperately trying to rally his base in an election year.
The regulation, which was announced Wednesday, would allow immigration officials to discard asylum seekers’ applications as “frivolous” without so much as a hearing, and make it impossible for victims of gang-related and gender-based violence to obtain protection in the US. It would also refuse asylum to anyone coming from a country other than Canada or Mexico, or who does not arrive on a direct flight to the US, as well as anyone who has failed to pay taxes, among other provisions.
President Donald Trump has been working to dismantle the asylum system for years, but this latest regulation is part of an election-year push to curtail immigration. In recent months and under the pretext of responding to the coronavirus pandemic, his administration has closed the US-Mexico border, begun rapidly returning asylum seekers arriving on the southern border to Mexico, and issued a temporary ban on the issuance of new green cards — policies that are now being challenged in court.
He is also expected to soon impose new restrictions on work-based visas with the stated purpose of protecting jobless Americans.
These policies had already made it exceedingly difficult for asylum seekers to apply for and obtain protections amid the pandemic. The administration’s latest regulation would make it all but impossible.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Newsflash to Vox!! There ARE other countries - and not "evil" or "racist" ones. Why not encourage asylum seekers to go to those??
Because then America couldn't then be destroyed from within, which is the goal.
LOL. Trump has learned from the Democrats...never let a crisis go to waste.
“under the pretext of responding to the coronavirus pandemic”
Oh so now they think the Plandemic is all a plot!
Gosh, good ta seeya on our side lady
desperately trying to rally his base in an election year.
Asylum has been a trick used for decades to get more and more immigrants into the US, especially under the Obama administration.
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But the article says the President’s reforms are a desperate act to get votes.
Should I believe you or a rotten piece of excrement who writes fake news?
a signature policy for a president desperately trying to rally his base in an election year.
Just curious, wouldn’t it be easier on Hispanics to seek asylum is another Hispanic country?
LOL. Over 300k have signed up to attend his Tulsa rally.
Just curious, wouldn’t it be easier on Hispanics to seek asylum is another Hispanic country?
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Easier yes, but then no mollycoddling AND NO FREE SH*T!
Asylum is meant for protection from a government’s threat against life or liberty. It was never intended to be used for people in danger from other non-governmental people or entities. If we took everyone who feared an abusive spouse, this country would be overrun.
Next strategy. Invasion from the South. There was an all black caravan in Panama but they seemed to have dropped off the radar. Watch for them to cross in the Piedras Negras/Cd Acuna area. (Eagle Pass/Del Rio)
“...a president desperately trying to rally his base in an election year.”
Don’t worry, all those Antifa/BLM rioters and “Defund the Police” Communists have seen to that.
President Donald Trump has been working to dismantle the asylum system for years...
Yeah, since 1972 at least :) /s
Donald Trump: Best President Ever!
“These policies had already made it exceedingly difficult for asylum seekers to apply for and obtain protections amid the pandemic. The administration’s latest regulation would make it all but impossible.”
A great report to wake up to.
Yes stop all this immigration legal and illegal. Why on earth would we allow more people into this racist, evil country? sarc
Parts of it are, such as Dem governors *intentionally* putting virus cases in nursing homes. Is this not comparable to giving Indians smallpox blankets?
America first...
Until or unemployment rate is below 3%, or whatever arbitrary number, we’ll put Americans to work first.
Solved
He absolutely is NOT doing this quietly. Why do they feel the need to say that?
The p-word
Propaganda
Even the Soviet people knew that everything written by Pravda and TASS was propaganda. America is finally beginning to awaken to this fact here too. It’s a slow learning curve though.
The crisis is not actually cover.
The planned actions occurred during the crisis on a previous schedule
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