Thread: MIGRANT CARAVAN ASYLUM SEEKERS BEING 'ILLEGALLY' TURNED AWAY AT BORDER, RIGHTS GROUP

This year, however, many who joined the caravan were determined to make it to the U.S., with most of the asylum seekers coming from Honduras in a bid to escape the instability and violence following the contested reelection of President Juan Orlando Hernández. Others traveled from countries like El Salvador and Guatemala, which, in addition to Honduras, are among the countries in the Americas most affected by violence and poverty.

Okay, I really don't get it. Asylum seekers should not be able to pass through one country that accepts asylum applications to get to another. Why should they be entitled to pick and choose? This policy just doesn't work for a welfare state like ours. All of those asylum seekers entering Mexico's Southern border should be stopped from entering Mexico for travel to the United States. If they want asylum, they should apply for asylum in Mexico. This should be Mexico's problem, not ours. At a minimum applications from foreign countries should be accepted at our foreign embassies, not at our border!

What's needed is a change in our asylum laws!

What's needed is a change in our asylum laws!

Yes, but in the interim, close the border to all unless one has papers, obama whipped out his pen for whatever - trump lacks pens???????