Thread: Attorney General Bill Barr Overturns Asylum Decision – Limits Migrants Seeking Asylum

by Cristina Laila July 29, 2019

US Attorney General Bill Barr ruled on Monday that migrants claiming to be family members of people being targeted by gangs is not enough to qualify them for asylum.

Barr’s ruling will likely block tens of thousands of people seeking asylum based on family ties.

The case highlighted Monday by the Justice Department is known as Matter L-E-A and is about the son of a man “who owned a store targeted by a local drug cartel.”

The son, a Mexican citizen, crossed into the United States illegally for the second time in 2011 and sought asylum.

Bill Barr overturned an asylum decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals and asserted they had “improperly recognized” the father’s immediate family as a “particular social group,” in effect overturning precedent.

Barr argued that based on the decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals, “virtually every alien” could make their way to the US and claim asylum.

“While the Board has recognized certain clans and subclans as ‘particular social groups,’ most nuclear families are not inherently socially distinct and therefore do not qualify as ‘particular social groups,’” Barr’s conclusion stated.

“Further, as almost every alien is a member of a family of some kind, categorically recognizing families as particular social groups would render virtually every alien a member of a particular social group. There is no evidence that Congress intended the term ‘particular social group’ to cast so wide a net,” Barr added.

Monday’s ruling by Bill Barr is in addition to President Trump’s newly signed “safe third country” asylum agreement with Guatemala.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...n-family-ties/

These people can RELOCATE within their own country.

That should be their 1st attempt with proof!


Many have Fake IDs. They can change their names and start a new life somewhere else within their own country. No need to come here!

They are all coached liars coming here for the free stuff. Economic migrants who want a job and live off the American taxpayers and drop a kid at our hospitals and they pay nothing! It is outrages.

Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, L.A., St. Louis, have more murders and gangs than Guatemala and most of these countries.

Cut off the free stuff and anchor baby scam and many will stop coming here. Go after the employers with fines and jail.

Get them out of our schools, off our healthcare system and out of our housing. Stop the banks from allowing them to open bank accounts. Deem those Drivers Licenses null and void. They have no right to be here OR drive on our roads let alone be awarded a government issued Drivers License.

It is expensive to live here...they cannot afford it without the welfare, food stamps and anchor baby! Shut it down!