[grania]

Sorry. I don't want any precedents that allow people who aren't here legally to stay in the US. If there's an exception, it'll be a precedent. LaRaza and the Muslim Brotherhood (etc) will hire scads of lawyers and use it to unravel what's left of immigration law.

[A'elian' nation]

I’m with you there on LaRazza and the Muslim Brotherhood, but back then we did not have special LEGAL asylum protocols for LaRazza and the Muslim Brotherhood.

We did however have such a legal protocol for refugees from Cuba. If they made it to dry land, they could legally declare asylum. As Verginius Rufus explained in a post here, Clinton and his cohorts found a way around the law and shanghaied the boy away at gunpoint to Cuba.