You have to accept amnesty applicants from non-contiguous states at the border. You can’t keep kids with their family. The EO will not stand up against a consent decree ratified in Congress and signed by POTUS in ‘97. Why NOT process amnesty applicants at the US embassy in their home country. You could have an administrative judge and a public attorney in each embassy or consulate, and do any appeals via e-mail to the States. It is insane to encourage people to brave the Mexican dessert or the high seas of the Caribbean just to make an amnesty application that could be more readily investigated inside the country of origin with the aid of diplomats’ clout protecting the investigators.
The law sucks, and has only lasted so long because until Trump nobody seriously tried to abide by it. Now the secret’s out. It sucks. It must be replaced. But nobody replaces it, either out of cowardice or fecklessness or both.
No we don't. Send them back.
You can’t keep kids with their family
Sure we can, chuck the whole bunch of them back over the border!
Why NOT process amnesty applicants at the US embassy in their home country.
I agree. But I believe that they PROPER way for them to apply for asylum (which I think is what you really mean) under current law is for them to do it at the consulate in their own country. Not on our border.
Coming to our border, crossing it and asking for asylum is a criminal act and those who attack our borders should either be shot or suffer a lifetime ban (for them AND their children) on ever entering our country.
Beyond that though, I still don't see why you say the system is broken? When properly enforced it makes it difficult for people to enter our country and makes sure that only those with something to contribute can make it in. That is what an immigration policy is SUPPOSED to do!
(although we do need to end chain immigration and birthright citizenship. Only children of citizens who are born here should be counted as citizens)