Posted on 03/17/2020 9:58:35 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Trump administration is reportedly planning to turn back all asylum seekers at both the northern and southern borders over concerns regarding the coronavirus outbreak.
Four administration officials told The New York Times on Tuesday that the policy would apply to asylum seekers and any other migrant seeking to cross the border illegally.
Ports of entry would remain open to American citizens, green card holders and some foreigners with proper documentation as well as commercial traffic, according to the report.
Under the new policy, which the officials said would be announced within 48 hours, migrants crossing the border between the points of entry would be shuttled back to Mexico if they are crossing the southern border and would not be held for any amount of time in the U.S.
The officials said the policy is intended to prevent a coronavirus outbreak inside detention facilities, which they feared could infect large numbers of Border Patrol agents, thus softening border defenses.
It was not immediately clear if migrants seeking asylum or other protections at the ports of entry would be subject to the new policy.
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Trudeau halted flights from China only this past Monday.
Didn’t the Ohio governor defy a judge’s order to keep the primary election going? And nobody batted an eyelash.
Well, which is it?
USCIS needs to turn away this year’s guest worker visa applicants as well.
CLOSE WALL STREET!!! EVERYTHING ELSE IS CLOSED!!
This is the only way to stop it until a "sea to shining sea" wall is built.
Yeah, but they do get their point across
Why are Syrian Christians exempt?
They are in fact Syrian
Should have happened 3 1/2 years ago, while a real “wall” should have been built border to border by now.
Trump had the right instincts and idea.
Unless each alien brings a bundle of TP as one cost for entry. :-)
“This is what we should have been doing since the last amnesty in 1986... Allowing them in only encouraged more.”
A couple of weeks ago before all this started I remember reading that many Chinese were stopped at the S. border as they tried to enter illegally.
I wondered THEN, why Chinese would be trying something like that in such numbers and at THAT border. It only came to mind again once the Virus news ramped up. It IS curious.
“This is what we should have been doing since the last amnesty in 1986... Allowing them in only encouraged more.”
A couple of weeks ago before all this started I remember reading that many Chinese were stopped at the S. border as they tried to enter illegally.
I wondered THEN, why Chinese would be trying something like that in such numbers and at THAT border. It only came to mind again once the Virus news ramped up. It IS curious.
Don’t be silly...they’ll easily find an Osama Obama appointee.
why can’t asylum seekers get asylum in Canada?
They aren’t Canadian, they have reached a “safe” country.
some try arguing that they aren’t safe in Mexico. But Canada?
Hey! He’s exploiting Covid19 to further his agenda! Nobody should be allowed to do that, except the left!/s
Did they use it where they CAME from??
Preppers make them cheap.
Huh? Why would that shithole need 22 consulates for? In Canada there is 7 and it has a bigger land mass.
Close wall street?? You sound like antifa..
A stunning revelation.
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