Thread: Asylum Rules Would Allow Migrating Foreign Populations to Fill Half of Midwest

~There is no record of how members voted thanks to Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS) who requested a voice vote on this amendment. The House Homeland Security Appropriations Bill has not yet been passed to the Senate.

Asylum Rules Would Allow Migrating Foreign Populations to Fill Half of Midwest

by John Binder 26 Jul 2018

New asylum rules approved by the GOP majority and Democrat minority House Appropriations Committee would give the right to migrate to the United States to a foreign population at least half the size of the American Midwest.

Two asylum rules pushed by Rep. David Price (D-NC) as well as Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS) and approved by the GOP-majority House Appropriations Committee would allow foreign nationals seeking refuge in the U.S. to migrate based on claims that they are fleeing domestic abuse or gang violence.

The asylum standards would be a direct rebuke of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ efforts to strengthen the country’s lax asylum system. He made clear in a memo that claiming to be fleeing domestic abuse or gang violence are not legitimate claims for asylum in the U.S.

The Republican establishment and Democrats’ reversal of Sessions’ memo would give the full populations of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras the right to migrate and seek asylum in the U.S., as all three Central American countries have been crippled for years by gangs.

As Breitbart News noted, this translates to about 32 million Central Americans being given the right to migrate. This would mean a foreign population about half the size of the American Midwest — where 67 million Americans live — would have the right to come to the country and permanently resettle.

That foreign population given the right to migrate to the U.S. would at least be 12 times the population of Chicago, Illinois, and more than 35 times the population of Columbus, Ohio.

Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach told Breitbart News he “can’t believe” any Republican lawmakers would support such a plan to expand asylum and essentially give foreign nationals the right to migrate to the U.S.

“This completely destroys the normal definition of asylum,” Kobach said. “Asylum is for people being persecuted.”

“Asylum would become meaningless and rampant with fraud because anyone can say that they live in fear of gang violence,” Kobach continued. “This would be a colossal mistake for Republicans to support this.”

The Republican establishment strategically tied the mass immigration plan to $5 billion worth of border wall funding that would give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the ability to begin constructing a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL) said she is “proud” to support the appropriations bill, touting the wall funding but failing to mention the weakened asylum rules that would allow entire foreign populations the right to migrate.

Rep. Martha Roby ✔ @RepMarthaRoby

Yesterday, in @HouseAppropsGOP, we passed the Homeland Security funding bill - our 12th & final appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2019. The bill includes a number of important measures, such as $5 billion for border security & wall construction. I was proud to support it.
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In 88 percent of cases, Breitbart News reported, foreign nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. evade immediate deportation after claiming credible fear, according to the Department of Justice. Only half of the foreign nationals who evade immediate deportation by claiming credible fear, however, end up filing for asylum status after they are released into the U.S.

“We need Congress to deal with the immigration question,” Sessions said on Thursday during a press conference. “There are loopholes in our laws that are being exploited and we need to get them focused and we’re pleading with them to do so. Our job and our enforcement officers’ job are far more difficult than they need to be. Common sense legislation can make a difference.”

Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants every year. In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44 million. By 2023, the legal and illegal immigrant population is expected to make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population if current immigration levels continue.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...lf-of-midwest/

wow... this is hard pill to swallow; that people are that damn stupid. How quick America and its retarded politicians have forgotten about 9 11; about American girls being raped by Illegals and where the hell is all of this IMAGINARY money coming from dirt broke America

This has to be squashed and I'm sure it will be. Absurd that any Republican would sign on to such a stupid harmful piece of legislation. Shame on you, Yoder!! What in the hell is wrong with you? No Kansan of sound mind would support such a thing.

We need to remember that Yoder was on Air Force One with Trump the day before this Bill passed, and I seriously doubt all their conversation was about grandkids and golf.

Originally Posted by Judy

Absurd that any Republican would sign on to such a stupid harmful piece of legislation. Shame on you, Yoder.

Yes, it is absurd, yet you keep posting Vote Republican ---Vote Republican without any exceptions or demands that they not be a D in disguise.

Oh yes, absolutely, VOTE REPUBLICAN! A stupid Republican like Yoder is still better than a DemoQuack!! Trump isn't going to sign any stupid shit bill like that and no Republican Congress is going to pass it. Trump wants to end all asylum and refugee programs on top of cutting legal immigration and stopping illegal immigration. Yoder is just dropping his "across the aisle" pants crap and showing off his little weeny. He'll learn, Republicans don't like that.

Story is Yoder's Dad nearly beat his mother to death and so he has a lot of sympathy for women escaping domestic violence to which I say, spare me your personal history and protect our nation. If he can't do that, he needs to resign and go work in a Domestic Violence Abuse Center in Wichita or Topeka and leave law-making to others better equipped.

Originally Posted by Judy

Oh yes, absolutely, VOTE REPUBLICAN! A stupid Republican like Yoder is still better than a DemoQuack!! Trump isn't going to sign any stupid shit bill like that and no Republican Congress is going to pass it.

I will remind you that Trump was on Air Force One with Yoder the day before, if Trump wasn't in on the hatching of this bill, he certainly did nothing to convince Yoder not to pass it. So far Trump has not had a melt down at a rally about this, and last I heard the WH would not even issue a statement about it. That speaks volumes.

Originally Posted by Judy

Trump isn't going to sign any stupid shit bill like that and no Republican Congress is going to pass it.

A little reminder...


Trump signed the $1.3 trillion spending bill

LOL!! You're not a Republican are you?

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

A little reminder...


Trump signed the $1.3 trillion spending bill

Because Congress passed it! It had a lot of stuff Trump wanted and he didn't want to shut down the government over the crap he didn't want. He was right to do so. DemoQuacks were wrong to load it up with pork simply because we wanted to build up our military and make it strong again!