Now that's something we can both agree on!
Re: This article is from April 2019.
Whoops - your link is from April 2018.
17 months (!) later, on 19 September 2019, this is what Trump was saying:
“There will be no more catch and release,” Trump told reporters Wednesday aboard Air Force One. “We won’t have catch within two weeks. We’ll be free of catch and release, releasing people.”
Face it, Dude - Trump is a pathological liar on the immigration issue.
Also - Trump's promise to send asylum seekers to a “third” country is a total scam.
The only reason people apply for asylum is because they can get welfare benefits and job permits while their case is being litigated.
More than 90% of asylum cases are rejected.
Bottom Line - if Trump starts sending asylees to a third country, NO ONE is going to apply for asylum.
They will just demand their day in court and get Catch and Release.
zeestephen~Face it, Dude - Trump is a pathological liar on the immigration issue.
Me: I don’t believe Trump is a pathological liar so we’re not gonna agree on much.
I have been watching this issue play out since he took office and there’s some mighty weird jurisdictional battles going on. He put up portions of a wall and had the army corp lock a gate in an extant wall. Some other gov official came along and opened the gate and locked it open with a chain and threatened to arrest anyone trying to close the gate.
I don’t know if that’s state or some other deep state saturated arm of the feds instituted by Oama/Clinton/Bush etc. I believe the president understands that the border is a military vulnerability as well as a port for trafficking guns, drugs and people so I don’t doubt his resolve to close the border, I’ just stunned at the loop holes. It seems the states also “get to play” in that game and work against the closure of the border as if their lives depend upon it.
zeestephenAlso - Trump’s promise to send asylum seekers to a “third” country is a total scam.
The only reason people apply for asylum is because they can get welfare benefits and job permits while their case is being litigated.
More than 90% of asylum cases are rejected.
Bottom Line - if Trump starts sending asylees to a third country, NO ONE is going to apply for asylum.
They will just demand their day in court and get Catch and Release.
Me: I dont’ think that’s the strategy. He doesn’t want them here. He’s actually reducing the inflow and telling peeps you can’t stay but he’s working against a headwind of loop holes and work arounds that our enemies are exploiting. He’s getting the job done. As many holes as they find, he closes them.