Thread: White House Sets Asylum Reform to Block Economic Migrants

White House Sets Asylum Reform to Block Economic Migrants

by Neil Munro 11 Jun 2020

President Donald Trump’s administration posted a new regulation to deter economic migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.

The draft was immediately slammed by pro-migration groups, who object to Trump’s closure of the southern border to economic immigrants since early 2020, and insist that the United States is a nation for immigrants.

“The Trump Administration’s renewed efforts to dismantle our nation’s asylum system are abhorrent, un-American, and illegal,” said a statement by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). “This President is attempting to rewrite our immigration laws in direct contravention of duly enacted statutes and clear congressional intent … We can and must continue to be a beacon of hope and freedom across the world.”

Since roughly 2011, more than two million migrants — plus roughly 500,000 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” — from Central America have moved into the United States. They have rationally used loose asylum rules and loopholes to migrate into the United States in search of work, safe neighborhoods, and decent K-12 schools. Few have been sent home because the courts are clogged and underfunded by Congress
That massive migration has been great for the migrants — and for white-collar employers, real estate owners, landlords, government aid workers, and immigration lawyers.

But it has been a disaster to blue-collar Americans. They have lost jobs and wages, cheap housing, K-12 opportunities for their kids – as well as political support from pro-migrant, white-collar Democrats, and college-graduate progressives.

The migration has also caused much turmoil in Central American countries because the exit of many young men and women deflate the political and economic reforms needed to grow their nation’s economies.

Trump used a variety of diplomatic threats and legal reforms to block the migration in early 2020.

Democrats and business groups have fought Trump at every step, partly because almost 150 million people around the world who want to become workers, renters, and consumers in the United States said a 2017 Gallup survey.

The Justice Department explained the new policy:

[The Departments] submitted to the Federal Register for publication a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would amend multiple provisions of the Departments’ regulations to create more efficient procedures for the adjudication of claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) regulations.

According to the department, the draft regulation would:

• Amend the regulations governing credible fear determinations so that individuals found to have such a fear will have their claims for asylum, withholding of removal, or protection under the CAT adjudicated by an immigration judge in streamlined proceedings, rather than in immigration court proceedings conducted under section 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA);
• Permit immigration judges to pretermit asylum applications without a hearing if the application does not demonstrate prima facie eligibility for relief;
• …
• Clarify standards for the adjudication of asylum and withholding claims including amendments to the definitions of the terms “particular social group,” “political opinion,” “persecution,” and “firm resettlement”;
• …
• Raise the burden of proof for the threshold screening of withholding and CAT protection claims from “significant possibility” to a “reasonable possibility” standard;

The new rules would largely bar migrants who traveled through various safe countries to get to the United States.
The rule would also narrow the categories of people who could claim membership of a persecuted “particular social group”:

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick
· Jun 10, 2020

Replying to @ReichlinMelnick
The new regulation would amend the definition of "firm resettlement" to basically imply that literally everyone was firmly resettled in a third country regardless of whether they even knew they could resettle in that country or even tried to resettle.

This is insane.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick

The worst parts of the new asylum regulation are the attempts to totally rewrite asylum law. In this section, they propose to totally redefine what it means to be a "member of a particular social group."

The result? Blocking nearly all Central Americans from asylum.


5:38 PM - Jun 10, 2020

Economic migrants have claimed membership in those groups to win entry, work permits, and residency in the United States.

That new policy reverses the trend set by President Barack Obama’s deputies. For example, those deputies widened the rules to provide asylum to Central American women who said their husbands physically abused them.

The new regulation “does not ‘close loopholes’; it’s not ‘legally focused’, ‘technical’, or ‘somewhat vague’. It explicitly & unambiguously shuts off asylum to the vast majority of people who deserve it under current law,” said a tweet from a California immigration lawyer.


Neil Munro ✔ @NeilMunroDC

Another poll shows the obvious: Americans want to like migrants, but also really want companies to hire Americans - incl. their kids - before importing more migrants.
Biz responds: Stare deeply into CNN: This isn't about money, it's all about 'dreamers'https://bit.ly/3dbvXzF


Rasmussen Poll Shows 2:1 Support for Hire American over Business First

Swing voters who will decide the 2020 election oppose by 2:1 to the ihiring of more foreign workers amid the coronavirus crash.
breitbart.com

11:46 PM - May 27, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...omic-migrants/

This program has been ABUSED for decades.

Shut it down completely. We are not the dumping ground for the world's problems or their ATM machine. Many are sick and have medical problems and we should not be paying for that either. We cannot afford our own healthcare and they are bankrupting our healthcare facilities and overcrowding our schools.

Go home, protest, change your own damn country and get a job there!

Get on birth control, overbreeding in poverty is not our problem, and not grounds for asylum. YOU made that decision, you pay for them all.

Whatever foreign aid we give any country should automatically include free vasectomies, tubal ligations, and the 7 year implant. Education and a Comprehensive Plan for Reform or not one more dime! You cannot overbreed your way out of poverty! These countries are corrupt and need to put their gangs in prison...period. No more money, no aid, no oatmeal. Clean up your own countries. We are sick of paying this extortion money.

They can relocate within their own countries.

No more free stuff, it is not free, and they do not pay into our system.

Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security Propose Rule on Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security (collectively, the Departments) submitted to the Federal Register for publication a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would amend multiple provisions of the Departments’ regulations to create more efficient procedures for the adjudication of claims for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) regulations. The NPRM is now available for public inspection and is expected to publish in the Federal Register in the near future.

The NPRM proposes to make the following changes to the Departments’ regulations:

• Amend the regulations governing credible fear determinations so that individuals found to have such a fear will have their claims for asylum, withholding of removal, or protection under the CAT adjudicated by an immigration judge in streamlined proceedings, rather than in immigration court proceedings conducted under section 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA);

• Permit immigration judges to pretermit asylum applications without a hearing if the application does not demonstrate prima facie eligibility for relief;

• Clarify when an application is “frivolous”;

• Clarify standards for the adjudication of asylum and withholding claims including amendments to the definitions of the terms “particular social group,” “political opinion,” “persecution,” and “firm resettlement”;

• Outline factors for adjudicators to consider when making discretionary determinations;

• Clarify the standard for determining the acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity under the CAT regulations;

• Raise the burden of proof for the threshold screening of withholding and CAT protection claims from “significant possibility” to a “reasonable possibility” standard;

• Apply bars to asylum and withholding when making credible fear determinations; and

• Clarify the requirement to protect certain information contained in asylum applications.

Overall, the NPRM, consistent with the INA, would allow the Departments to more effectively separate baseless claims from meritorious ones.

This would better ensure groundless claims do not delay or divert resources from deserving claims.

The Departments will consider written comments regarding the NPRM that are submitted per the instructions in the publication.




https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/depar...res-asylum-and

HEAR the case via Skype in THEIR country.

No more showing up on our doorstep. These LIARS cannot be vetted from here. This is ridiculous!

We cannot allow one billion people on the planet to show up with their BOGUS claims.

No more taxpayer funded travel back home. U.S. taxpayers are not their travel agent.

Let their Embassy make their travel arrangements back home and pay for it or NO more Visa's should be issued to those countries. We are not the dumping ground for the world's citizens or their problems.

Time or a Comprehensive Plan for Reform for these countries they are coming here from or not one more dime of our "foreign aid" to these corrupt countries with ZERO results.


NO MORE ASYLUM!!!

THEY CAN RELOCATE WITHIN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.