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    HERE’S HOW THE ASYLUM SYSTEM IS BEING EXPLOITED


    HERE’S HOW THE ASYLUM SYSTEM IS BEING EXPLOITED

    7:42 PM 05/19/2019 | INVESTIGATIVE GROUPAndrew Kerr | Investigative Reporter



    • Only a small minority of migrants from the Central American countries at the epicenter of the border crisis say violence drove them out of their homeland, multiple surveys show.
    • Most migrants from the so-called Northern Triangle who claim asylum at the border are let into the country pending a court hearing, but only about half file for asylum as they await their day in immigration court, data shows.
    • “The vast majority of current Central American asylum seekers — by their own admission — are economic migrants who do not qualify for asylum,” Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) research director Matt O’Brien told TheDCNF.
    • President Donald Trump unveiled a sweeping immigration plan Thursday that would combat asylum abuse by screening out “meritless claims.”

    Tens of thousands of apprehended migrants from the Central American countries driving the border crisis exploit loopholes in the immigration system by making false asylum claims, according to data, experts and surveys.
    The loopholes allow “people with suspect asylum claims … to make their way into the interior of the United States and disappear,” one expert told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Data shows only about half of the migrants from those countries who claim asylum actually file a formal application after being let into the U.S.
    Asylum is a status reserved for individuals who face persecution in their homeland, but less than 4% of migrants from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras exclusively said they were fleeing violence, while 72% cited economic conditions as their sole reason for leaving, according to a 2017 survey of deported migrants by the Migration in the Southern Border of Mexico (EMIF).
    Just 10% cited both violence and economic conditions as motivating factors.
    “The vast majority of current Central American asylum seekers — by their own admission — are economic migrants who do not qualify for asylum, because they are not subject to persecution on the basis of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group,” Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) research director Matt O’Brien told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
    Combined primary and secondary reasons Northern Triangle migrants say they emigrate to the U.S., according to migrants surveyed following their deportation. (Graphic: DCNF/Andrew Kerr; Data source: Survey on Migration in the Southern Border of Mexico)
    But flaws in U.S. immigration procedures provide economically driven migrants with an illegitimate pathway into the country through asylum, Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analyst Matthew Susses told TheDCNF.
    “These factors combine to make a situation that’s easily exploitable and puts people with real legitimate asylum claims and credible fears of violence at a disadvantage because of the large numbers of bogus asylum claims in the system,” he said.
    “When you ask the migrants themselves from these countries, until they’re coached by lawyers, they’re generally pretty honest in that economics are the main motivating factor,” Susses said. “There are exceptions, but for the most part, these people are coming for economic reasons, and that is sympathetic, but it’s not grounds for asylum.”
    Most apprehended illegal immigrants from the Northern Triangle region subjected to expedited removal from the country make the indication to apply for asylum. In fiscal year 2018, for example, 61% of the of nearly 104,000 Guatemalans, El Salvadorians and Hondurans facing expedited removal from the U.S. were referred for a “credible fear” test, and 73% of those screened were tested positive by asylum officers, according to a November 2018 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report.
    The “credible fear” test is used to determine whether a migrant will be able to prove in immigration court that he or she faces persecution. But the evaluation is only the first step in the asylum process, and immigration judges are much more stringent than asylum officers who issue the screening.
    “Out of every 100 credible fear claims, on average, only about 12 result in a grant of asylum by an asylum judge,” the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review wrote in May.
    President Donald Trump unveiled a sweeping immigration plan Thursday that fixes what he called a “broken asylum system.”
    “Unfortunately, legitimate asylum seekers are being displaced by those lodging frivolous claims — these are frivolous claims — to gain admission into our countries,” Trump said. “My plan expedites relief for legitimate asylum seekers by screening out the meritless claims. If you have a proper claim, you will quickly be admitted. If you don’t, you will promptly be returned home.”
    CIS policy expert Jessica Vaughan said Northern Triangle nationals realized claiming asylum at the border was a low-risk and effective vehicle to secure entry into the U.S.
    “It’s not that conditions have changed much in these countries, but that they figured out that asylum was a way to get in the door,” Vaughan told The Washington Examiner in June 2018. “Clearly, the lenient policies that enable people to get into the United States just by claiming a fear of return — the ‘credible fear’ standard — is attracting more and more people every year.”
    “They know they can make this claim and will be allowed in with no consequences and can disappear into the larger illegal population and may or may not show up for their immigration proceedings,” she continued
    Similarly, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said in April: “In the last few weeks there’s been a dramatic change, and that is we’re seeing unaccompanied young people as well as families with lots of kids pouring into the border, and they say the magic word, ‘I’m seeking asylum,'” Romney said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
    “They’re being just turned out into our country — 125,000 of them so far this year,” he continued. “It’s overwhelming our system, we have got to be able to deal with this.”
    Migrants with “credible fear” are allowed to stay in the U.S. pending a court date. As of May, the average immigration case takes nearly two years to complete due to a backlog exceeding 830,000 cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan database of U.S. federal immigration enforcement operated by Syracuse University.
    Credible fear screening results involving Northern Triangle migrants facing expedited removal in 2018. Closed cases are instances where asylum officers didn’t make a merit-based decision on the migrant’s claim, but referred the case to removal proceedings for an unspecified reason (Graphic: DCNF/Andrew Kerr; Data source: Department of Homeland Security)
    But the law does not require migrants with credible fear to file a formal application for asylum as they remain in the U.S. awaiting their day in court — a loophole nearly half of all such migrants have taken advantage of over the past 10 years, according to the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
    “There is a disconnect between the low credible fear interview standard, which determines whether an alien is allowed to stay in the U.S. and pursue an asylum claim, and the complex standards that apply in asylum proceedings,” O’Brien said. “This incongruity consistently allows people with suspect asylum claims into the United States, pending a hearing.”
    “As a result, many people with no legitimate claim to asylum or to any other form of relief exploit the system in order to make their way into the interior of the United States and disappear, work illegally, etc.,” O’Brien said.
    Immigration judges adjudicated nearly 21,000 cases from Northern Triangle nationals that entered the system under the premise of facing persecution in their homeland in fiscal year 2018, according to DHS.
    “Yet in only about 54% of these cases did the alien file an asylum application,” DHS wrote in November 2018. “Furthermore, about 38% … did not appear [in court], and were ordered removed in absentia.”
    Removal proceedings adjudicated in fiscal year 2018 involving Northern Triangle migrants asylum officers found to have credible fear. (Graphic: DCNF/Andrew Kerr; Data source: Department of Homeland Security)
    “Given that those aliens asserted a fear of persecution and progressed through credible-fear screening, those aliens presumably would have had the greatest reason to then pursue an asylum application,” DHS wrote. “Even when nationals of Northern Triangle countries who passed through credible-fear screening applied for asylum … immigration judges granted asylum to only 1,889, or 17% of the cases where such aliens filed asylum applications in their removal proceedings,” DHS added.
    Migrants with credible fear findings could be placed in “asylum-only” proceedings as soon as August as a result of Trump’s April executive order that, in part, orders DHS to close the loophole.
    Migrant family units are almost never deported once let into the U.S.

    Ultimately, only 1.4 percent of migrant family members from the Northern Triangle who crossed the border illegally in 2017 have been deported, The Washington Post reported.
    Susses said it’s not a coincidence that the share of Northern Triangle migrants arriving with children skyrocketed following the 2015 expansion to the Flores settlement, which required the release of all immigrant minors, accompanied or unaccompanied, after 20 days in custody.
    “There’s a reason those times line up perfectly because Central Americans understand that their chances of being released into the country are high due to our laws,” Susses said. “That’s also why half don’t file for asylum after that initial credible fear screening. A lot of them figure, ‘what’s the point?'”
    “So even if they’re complying with the process, at any point they can just drop out if they think that their chances of getting a positive asylum finding are going to be low,” he continued.
    The prevalence of fake family units has increased substantially in recent years. DHS reported in early May that it had discovered more than 1,000 fraudulent families trying to cross the southern border.
    A Guatemalan man was indicted in March for paying $130 to “rent” a child prior to illegally crossing the southern border. DHS investigators said the man “had looked for a child in Guatemala to cross the United States/Mexico international border with as he was told it was easier to get into the United States with a child,” according to the criminal complaint.(RELATED: Illegal Migrant Allegedly Paid $130 To ‘Rent’ A Child To Cross The Border)
    Northern Triangle migrants are motivated by economics

    The 2017 EMIF survey, which polled migrants whom U.S. authorities deported, found that over 85% of El Salvadorians and over 95% of Guatemalans and Hondurans migrated to the U.S. to pursue better economic conditions as a primary or secondary reason.
    El Salvadorians represented the largest share of Northern Triangle migrants who named violence as a factor behind migration into the U.S. in the EMIF survey, but only a little over one-in-four cited it as a reason. Only 9% of Hondurans cited violence as a factor, followed by less than 2% of Guatemalans.
    Other surveys found similar results.
    A 2016 International Organization for Migration survey found that 91% of Guatemalans immigrated to the U.S. for economic reasons, while less than 1% said violence, extortion or gang problems was a factor. Another survey by a progressive Jesuit group, the Society of Jesus, found in 2017 that 83% of Hondurans with relatives who left the country said they did so to pursue better economic opportunities, while only 11% cited violence.
    Unaccompanied child migrants from the Northern Triangle also say they’re driven to the U.S. primarily for economic reasons. Nearly 58% of children from the region cited economic motives behind their migration to the U.S, while less than 25% cited violence as a reason, according to a 2016 survey of unaccompanied child migrants from the Northern Triangle held in Mexican shelters.
    ‘Mexico offers little economic gain to Northern Triangle Migrants’

    The underlying economic motivations driving migration out of the Northern Triangle explains why many from the region chose not to file for asylum in Mexico, which offers a “significantly lower” crime rate than other countries in the region, according to a 2018 study from the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California.
    “Adult asylum seekers have primarily been driven by economic motivations,” the report stated. “Mexico offers very little economic gain to Northern Triangle migrants, and the increase in income that a migrant could typically expect from migrating to Mexico would not justify the costs of doing so.”
    “It is unsurprising that the United States is the final destination for almost all migrants leaving the Northern Triangle, given that they can expect to increase their wage by 1,200 percent by going to the United States, but by only 10 percent by going to Mexico,” CREATE reported.
    Jason Hopkins contributed to this report
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    Good article.
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    Asylum is a lame excuse that cannot be proved. Most of the invaders that are being exposed to violence are the ones in the drug trade. The official definition of asylum seeking, is you must be fleeing government oppression, and not oppression from groups.

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    I would issue an Executive Order or tell the head of DHS to issue a MEMO changing the asylum claim process to end all asylum claims from Mexico, Central America and South America due to lack of evidence of any condition in those countries that would support an asylum claim. There is no political persecution by the governments going on in any of these countries. For those already here, do a press announcement and send them a letter that pulls their work permits and orders them out of the country immediately. And no we don't have to haul them out of here, you tell them to pack their bags and kids and get the hell out of here in 15 days at their expense and don't let another one into the country.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I would issue an Executive Order or tell the head of DHS to issue a MEMO changing the asylum claim process to end all asylum claims from Mexico, Central America and South America due to lack of evidence of any condition in those countries that would support an asylum claim. There is no political persecution by the governments going on in any of these countries. For those already here, do a press announcement and send them a letter that pulls their work permits and orders them out of the country immediately. And no we don't have to haul them out of here, you tell them to pack their bags and kids and get the hell out of here in 15 days at their expense and don't let another one into the country.
    The only reason Trump doesn't do this is because this is what he wants. Remember that! He could STOP it . He does NOT.

    The language of the relevant statute (section 212(f) of the INA) is as clear as can be:


    Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non immigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
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    He issued an order months ago back in November to deny asylum claims to that class of "aliens" who entered illegally and then claimed asylum. It was blocked by the courts. See article below:

    White House attacks 'activist judges' after federal court blocks Trump's asylum ban

    The president has argued that the recent caravans are a threat to national security.
    Trump announces plan to deny asylum to migrants who try to enter U.S. illegally

    Nov. 20, 2018, 2:15 AM EST / Updated Nov. 20, 2018, 4:11 AM EST
    By Adam Edelman and Dartunorro Clark

    The White House on Tuesday blasted a federal judge for temporarily blocking the Trump administration from refusing asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

    In a sharply worded statement late Tuesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders excoriated the ruling as "yet another example of activist judges imposing their open borders policy preferences." She vowed that the administration "will take all necessary action" to fight the decision.

    "This decision will open the floodgates, inviting countless illegal aliens to pour into our country on the American taxpayer's dime," Sanders claimed.

    In a ruling issued late Monday, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, who is based in San Francisco, wrote that President Donald Trump's "rule barring asylum for immigrants who enter the country" outside a port of entry “irreconcilably conflicts” with federal immigration laws and "the expressed intent of Congress."

    "Whatever the scope of the President's authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden," Tigar, who was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by President Barack Obama, wrote.

    Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen also condemned the ruling Tuesday at a press conference near the U.S. border in southern California.

    "This is a dangerous ruling and, given last year's Supreme Court ruling on this issue, will undoubtedly be overturned," Nielsen said.

    Though she said she would follow the judge's order, she said that the country's "generous asylum system" is being abused and pledged to vigorously secure the border from a caravan of migrants, mostly from Honduras, traveling toward the U.S.

    She estimated that 8,000 to 10,000 migrants are attempting to gain entry in the U.S., and that roughly 500 are criminals or gang members.

    "The crisis is real and it is just on the other side of this wall," she said. "DHS and the administration will continue to take all possible actions to stop the caravan from entering the United States illegally without just cause and to ensure our borders are secure."

    She also claimed, citing "historical trends" and "intel" but no specific evidence, that majority of those in the caravan have "frivolous or unsubstantiated claims of asylum" and are seeking to exploit legal loopholes to gain entry into the U.S.

    "Wanting a job is not a basis for asylum under U.S. law," she said. "Wanting to live in the U.S (is) not a basis of asylum under U.S. law."

    Earlier this month, Trump signed a proclamation that will make it harder for immigrants to claim asylum if they are caught crossing the border between designated ports of entry, fulfilling a key midterm promise to crack down on undocumented immigrants crossing the Southwest border ahead of the expected arrival of migrant caravans heading for the U.S.

    As a result of the Nov. 9 order, asylum-seekers who do not go through ports of entry were apprehended, detained and deported unless they met a higher bar, such as proving they would be tortured if they were sent home. Within hours, the American Civil Liberties Union sued to block the new restrictions, calling it "the asylum ban."

    Senior administration officials told reporters on a conference call after the order was issued that the president had the legal authority to issue the order because of sections of immigration law that allow the president discretion over who is admitted into the United States — the same language the administration used to support its travel ban in court.

    Under international law, however, asylum-seekers are permitted to make a claim regardless of where they enter.
    First group of Central American migrants arrives in Tijuana to seek asylum in U.S.

    In his ruling Monday — which will remain in effect for one month barring an appeal — Tigar said the Trump administration misused its authority to issue emergency regulations, and agreed with legal groups that had sued the Trump administration claiming that U.S. immigration law allows people to seek asylum even if they enter the country between official ports of entry.

    Tigar also agreed with claims made by the groups that immigrants affected by the ban would “suffer irreparable injury if the rule goes into effect.”

    “Asylum seekers will be put at increased risk of violence and other harms at the border, and many will be deprived of meritorious asylum claims. The government offers nothing in support of the new rule that outweighs the need to avoid these harms,” he wrote.

    In a statement on the ruling, DHS defended Trump's executive action as "lawful and appropriate" in the face of an asylum system that is "broken" and "being abused by tens of thousands of meritless claims every year."

    "And it is absurd that a set of advocacy groups can be found to have standing to sue to stop the entire federal government from acting so that illegal aliens can receive a government benefit to which they are not entitled," the statement continued.

    As of Monday, 107 people detained between official crossings have sought asylum since Trump's order went into effect, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Customs and Border Protection.

    Trump has argued that the recent caravans are a threat to national security.

    According to The Associated Press, around 3,000 people from the first of the caravans have arrived in Tijuana, Mexico, across the border from San Diego, California.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...egally-n938271
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I would issue an Executive Order or tell the head of DHS to issue a MEMO changing the asylum claim process to end all asylum claims from Mexico, Central America and South America due to lack of evidence of any condition in those countries that would support an asylum claim. There is no political persecution by the governments going on in any of these countries. For those already here, do a press announcement and send them a letter that pulls their work permits and orders them out of the country immediately. And no we don't have to haul them out of here, you tell them to pack their bags and kids and get the hell out of here in 15 days at their expense and don't let another one into the country.

    YOU BETTER BELIEVE HE COULD DO EXACTLY THIS AND HE REFUSES!!!!!!!!!! I've been saying this on internet talk radio for MONTHS now since Nov. 2018. People don't believe you when you state what he could do and SHOULD HAVE DONE, MONTHS AGO. He's scam artist and a Traitor to this nation and he's following a UN/Soros NGO/City of London Rothschild NWO Inc. PLAN/Immigration Invasion Script that has been laid out for him. Nikki Haley let the cat out of the bag when she slipped in that interview. Granted, the order will be challenged in court BUT HE REFUSES TO DO IT and continues with his, "The Democrats have to change the law" BS.
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    The best and most legal way to fix this is to change the laws. Why is that a problem for you?
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