Posted on 06/11/2018 2:07:14 PM PDT by caww
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making an aggressive new move to crack down on illegal immigration, announcing Monday that the Trump administration will no longer accept asylum claims based on fear of domestic violence, gang violence or other “personal crime.”
“Our nation’s immigration laws provide for asylum to be granted to individuals who have been persecuted, or who have a well-founded fear of persecution, on account of their membership in a ‘particular social group,’ but most victims of personal crimes do not fit this definition — no matter how vile and reprehensible the crime perpetrated against them," a Justice Department statement said.
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Being from a S&%#hole country is no longer a valid reason to request asylum...
Earlier in the day at an event outside Washington, Sessions took aim at the asylum-seeking process in the United States.
HE further states...
“The asylum system is being abused to the detriment of the rule of law, sound public policy, and public safety — and to the detriment of people with just claims,” he said. “Saying a few simple words—claiming a fear of return — is now transforming a straightforward arrest for illegal entry and immediate return into a prolonged legal process, where an alien may be released from custody into the United States and possibly never show up for an immigration hearing,” Sessions continued.
Sessions portrayed asylum seekers as making claims as a means to an end.
“Asylum was never meant to alleviate all problems — even all serious problems — that people face every day all over the world,” he said.
Sessions said that majority of asylum claims “are not valid.”
He lamented that the numbers have ballooned for people who claim asylum and are being placed in immigration courts.
The U.S. investigates and determines if people who claim asylum has “credible fear” and then if it is determined they do, according to U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, they are brought in front of an immigration judge for a hearing on whether they’ll be granted asylum.
The number of credible fear screenings has risen more than a thousand percent between 2008-2016.
This is good news, they are finally going to follow the law!
Many here have said that illegal immigration (and resulting cultural/demographic changes) is the #1 threat to our nations future. I’d like to see the deep state prosecuted but I cant complain about the effort regarding illegals here. Seems like Sessions is doing all he legally can and its up to Congress to do more. Just sayin’. Lots of swamp to still drain.
“This is good news, they are finally going to follow the law!”
Yeah,until some Hawaiian judge stops it.
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The number of credible fear screenings has risen more than a thousand percent between 2008-2016.
USCIS says screenings have gone from 5,100 in 2008 to close to 92,000 screenings in 2016.
The Department of Justice has sent more than 15 immigration judges and over 30 prosecutors to the southern border to process asylum and other immigration cases.
“We have a firm goal, and that is to end the lawlessness that now exists in our immigration system,” Sessions said.
A moot point as an excuse for ‘asylum’ because that crapsack obama imported so many gangsters into the US during his leftist regime.
It would really make America great is they enforced this law retroactively for about 20 years.
I’d say Session’s paid Weasel Mueller is running a gang prone to violence.
If you read the article the drastic increases jumped 1000% 2008-2016.under Obama!
““We have a firm goal, and that is to end the lawlessness that now exists in our immigration system,” Sessions said.”
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I certainly hope that this works.
The SINGLE issue in my decision to vote for Trump was rampant,lawless immigration.
(Lots of good stuff happening now,but this is still important to me.)
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A reasonable policy change. If you can say, “I’m afraid of X”, you have a path in ... even if your kid is one of the gang members.
It’s VERY important to me. Even our small cities are looking like mexican, asian or whatever.....I am not for parallel cultures moving in and taking over....and that’s what they do!
Are we certain Sessions is behind this? After all there is no reefer involved as far as I know and that is the only thing that wakes Sessions up from his nap time.
California's rapid transition from the home of Reagan to a hard-left, America-hating territory-in-rebellion is a grim warning to what's in store for the whole country if the third-world hordes keep pouring in.
Y-you mean they might allow C-Christians and Yazidi refugees from Syria? Ewww.../s
Battered women were being let in....which is ridiculous that they would come from central America to escape their husband! LOLOOL
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. Letting in gang members who have a fear of persecution by other gang members whose gangs are bigger and tougher is sound domestic policy. People who lose gang wars in Mexico are just as likely to lose gang wars in the United States. What America needs are wimpier gang members, who are less likely to shoot it out with the police or their neighbors, because if they were any good at it, they’d be shooting it out with their Mexican neighbors and the Mexican police. Thus, America will be safer and more peaceful if we’d only let in more wimpy gang members.
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