Some asylum aspirants pin hopes on Trump-era policy

The Associated Press ^ | January 31, 2022 | By MARIA VERZA and ELLIOT SPAGAT

[Oldeconomybuyer]

REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — A revived Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. court is reviled by immigration advocates and repudiated by the Biden administration, which acted under a judge’s order. Asylum hopeful Alexander Sánchez of Venezuela has a more favorable view.

“There is no other way to cross legally and, for that reason, I think it’s good,” he said at a migrant shelter in Reynosa, a Mexican border city where he has been living for nine months with his wife and their 5-year-old daughter.

The Biden administration has declined to say how many asylum-seekers have been returned to Mexico with court dates in the U.S. since the policy resumed and has not provided a breakdown by nationality.

[Don Corleone]

What’s this Mexican border I keep hearing about? I live in southern Arizona and can’t seem to locate it.

[jmacusa]

End all illegal immigration and put at least a year moratorium on legal immigration and then go back to pre-1965 levels of immigration, 300,000 a year. I’m so sick and damned tired of seeing my country, America,my home, OUR HOME!, being turned into some kind of Motel 6 for every jabbering Third World mutt who strolls in here.
I work with people from all over Europe, the Middle

East(America hating bastards everyone of them) Brits, Greeks(nasty people), Poles,Germans, Vietnamese, Filipinos(at least they helped us beat the Japs). Everything out of most of them is always “In my country the health care is free’’. “In my country we don’t have guns’’.

So I say to them “So why aren’t you in your country. Why are you here?’’.

I never get an answer.