Fake asylum claims go 'poof' as illegals skip their asylum hearings in droves

American Thinker ^ | 15 May, 2026 | Monica Showalter

[MtnClimber]

Suddenly, they aren't so terrified of returning to their home countries anymore. And they are skipping their bogus asylum hearing cases left and right.

The most infuriating thing about the border surge is not simply the breach of the unguarded border, but the string of lies that premised it -- the fake claims of asylum of the illegal migrants, claiming to be persecuted and terrified of returning to their home countries, which as anyone with a lick of sense could surmise had no merit whatsoever.

It was obvious enough in the absence of crises around the world, in the country-shopping of the migrants for the best benefit packages which real refugees seeking any port in a storm would never do, in the payments to cartels, and in the fact that most asylum seekers came from full-blown democracies where they had the right to vote their governments out if there was a problem.

But none of that speaks quite like the behavior of migrants, responding to incentives handed to them from the Joe Biden side of the equation, where everyone who broke into the country was allowed to apply for asylum and offered a full-ride benefit package, including transport, hotels, work permits, free education, free medical care, free food, free Obamaphones, and free housing. All, that, plus 'coaching' by federally funded legal service NGOs, including Catholic Charities, for illegals, on how to successfully game the system in order to win their phony asylum cases, as some did.

We can see how fake it all was now in the second year of the Trump administration: The illegal border crossers are now skipping their asylum hearings. Asylum hearing skippings went from 4,000 a month in 2025 to 8,000 a month this year, according to the Center of Immigration Studies

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; asylum; biden; border; fraud; illegalimmigration; r

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’d love to see it. I’m tired of these illegal alien, America and Gringo haters and invaders coming here and setting up their perverted socialist colonies so they can continue taking over the U.S. Government and the House and Senate. Now they’ve got a Jamaican/Indian/Canadian skank they desperately want to be president. We’ve got an Indian skank refugee who ran away from India who wants to get elected the Mayor of Los Angeles. From Refugee to the Mayor of Los Angeles. American voters are morons. Muzzie Terrorists, African pirates, drug runners, Queens of the Desert Caravans and homosexuals from all over the world are now infesting our home country. Geez.

[Antoninus]

So what happens to such no-shows? Are they now on the list for immediate deportation? If so, go git ‘em.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

All I know is after a lull, they are out and proud again en masse everywhere, loudly speaking Spanish as they break out their SNAP cards again, completely unafraid of being deported.

[vpintheak]

Real shocker. I was so sure the illegal aliens would abide…