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Posted on 05/16/2025 12:59:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
They arrive at the U.S. border from around the world: Eritrea, Guatemala, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ghana, Uzbekistan and so many other countries.
They come for asylum, insisting they face persecution for their religion, or sexuality or for supporting the wrong politicians.
For generations, they had been given the chance to make their case to U.S. authorities.
Not anymore.
“They didn’t give us an ICE officer to talk to. They didn’t give us an interview. No one asked me what happened,” said a Russian election worker who sought asylum in the U.S. after he said he was caught with video recordings he made of vote rigging. On Feb. 26, he was deported to Costa Rica with his wife and young son.
On Jan. 20, just after being sworn in for a second term, President Donald Trump suspended the asylum system as part of his wide-ranging crackdown on illegal immigration, issuing a series of executive orders designed to stop what he called the “invasion” of the United States.
What asylum-seekers now find, according to lawyers, activists and immigrants, is a murky, ever-changing situation with few obvious rules, where people can be deported to countries they know nothing about after fleeting conversations with immigration officials while others languish in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
Attorneys who work frequently with asylum-seekers at the border say their phones have gone quiet since Trump took office. They suspect many who cross are immediately expelled without a chance at asylum or are detained to wait for screening under the U.N.’s convention against torture, which is harder to qualify for than asylum.
“I don’t think it’s completely clear to anyone what happens when people show up and ask for asylum,” said Bella Mosselmans, director of the Global Strategic Litigation Council.
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Fixed it.
They don’t tell you that leftists were “educating” all illegals to claim asylum because that would get them in the country faster.
Since Jan 20, this was the new rule. The news has been out that “homey don’t play that no moe”. But keep on trying our patience and see what it got you.
As they say in the westerns, “There’s a new marshall in town”...
YES, INDEED
Oh noes! But, but…muh grift!
Here’s an idea...
GO HOME!
😭
The UN agreement I understand we are under says that asylum can only be requested from an immediately connected country, if not from within the country of residence. We would handle Canada and Mexico, in that case.
Everyone else should be sent home, at their cost.
Yes. There are a lot of countries between here and Russia.
There is no reason for their future to be uncertain. There are many places besides the USA to go. And they must know that to enter the USA illegally is a crime.
And the system is all still in place waiting for the other sheriff, or enough deputies in Congress, to return.
No there’s not, Siberia is right next to Alaska.
I think there is an exception for those flown in in special circumstances, but yes, once you cross a border, there is your asylum...
Crossing multiple borders was specifically not an option for that very reason. Countries could volunteer to take some if the host country was struggling with large numbers.
The reason the South Africans have to come here is that none of their border countries will give them aasylum...
Trump suspends asylum system, leaving diseased migrant-invading aliens to face an uncertain future
What Trump doesn’t want to race Canada, Germany and the UK to the ground with importing the third world?
Many ways to skin this cat!!
Millions of fake asylum seekers, and their Democrat enablers, have ruined it for the actually prosecuted.
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