Administration Will Deny Full Asylum Benefits to Illegal Border Crossers

Breitbart ^ | 8 Nov 2018 | Neil Munro

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President Donald Trump will use a fast-track regulation and a presidential announcement to deny full asylum to illegal border-crossers. “Consistent with our immigration laws, the President has the broad authority to suspend or restrict the entry of aliens into the United States if he determines it to be in the national interest to do so,” said a statement by Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker. They continued:

Today’s rule applies this important principle to aliens who violate such a suspension or restriction regarding the southern border imposed by the President by invoking an express authority provided by Congress to restrict eligibility for asylum. Our asylum system is overwhelmed with too many meritless asylum claims from aliens who place a tremendous burden on our resources, preventing us from being able to expeditiously grant asylum to those who truly deserve it.

Today, we are using the authority granted to us by Congress to bar aliens who violate a Presidential suspension of entry or other restriction from asylum eligibility.”

The policy covers the migrants in the three caravans that are moving northwards, and all other migrants who cross the border illegally.

The plan has two steps.

First, the president uses his legal authority to bar the entry of some groups of travelers into the United States. The likely group is migrants seeking jobs in the United States. This legal authority provides border officials with the legal authority for the second step.

[W.]

Boom, boom, boom. Repeat as necessary...

[BuffaloJack]

I should hope so. Asylum can only be granted by the first country a refugee enters. The UN does not allow refugee status to people transiting a country.

[Gideon300]

I should hope so. Asylum can only be granted by the first country a refugee enters. The UN does not allow refugee status to people transiting a country.
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The Protocol of 1951 pertains to European war refugees from certain areas, and refers to “refugees”, not “asylum seekers”. The two are defined differently. The Protocol of 1967 revised the affected area from Europe to worldwide but included nearly all other articles of the 1951 agreement.

Asylum seekers are defined as those fleeing “persecution over their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group”. Poverty and social insecurity are not reasons for asylum. Asylum seekers, however, are not bound by any “first country of entry” clause. They may seek asylum in any country they choose, but that country has the right of refusal.