Thread: Trump Is Considering Denying Asylum To Immigrants Who Travel Through A Third Country

Trump Is Considering Denying Asylum To Immigrants Who Travel Through A Third Country

The proposal could be a major escalation in the administration’s attempts to deter asylum-seekers from coming to the US.

Hamed AleazizBuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on May 30, 2019, at 1:29 p.m. ET

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Migrants board a bus heading to the border with Costa Rica in Panama.


The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would bar asylum for those who transit through a third country, a potential major escalation in the administration’s attempts to deter asylum-seekers, according to sources close to the administration.

The proposal, included in a draft interim final rule from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, would represent just the latest in multiple attempts by the Trump administration to discourage asylum-seekers from trying to enter the United States. Previous moves, such as banning asylum for those who crossed the border between ports of entry, were blocked by the courts, and this effort, if finalized, would likely face a court challenge also.

Language in the proposal, which was described to BuzzFeed News, claims that immigrants coming to the US transit through not just one country but through multiple countries in which they can seek some protection but do not make themselves available to that option.

It includes an additional limitation on eligibility: Those seeking asylum will be found ineligible if they have entered or attempted to enter the US after failing to apply for asylum or other protections in any country that is not the country of origin for the immigrant and that they went through to get to the US.
Politico first reported the existence of the draft proposal.

DHS officials have raised concerns about the policy, which has been described as overly broad, including whether it would cover people who traveled through airports in other countries and pointing out that other countries do not offer full asylum protections.

“The administration’s pattern of enacting harsh border policies that are quickly walked back or enjoined is contributing to the urgency asylum seekers feel to get to the U.S. border as quickly as possible. There is no doubt that this new plan would follow suit,” said Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. “The administration already tried to alter qualifications to apply for asylum. Not only was that asylum ban found to ‘irreconcilably conflict’ with federal law at the district court level, but the Supreme Court seemingly agreed, declining to reverse the lower court’s injunction.”

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Immigrants, mostly from Central America, await a van that will take them to a processing center, in El Paso, Texas.


In speeches, Trump has made it clear that he’d favor an approach that limited the entry of asylum-seekers, casting a suspicious eye at the system as a whole.

“It’s a scam. It’s a hoax,” Trump said of asylum-seekers as he spoke in California during an April visit to the border wall there. “I know about hoaxes, I just went through a hoax. Our system is full.”

It was during that same visit when CNN reported that Trump told now-acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan that he would pardon him if he were sent to jail for blocking asylum-seekers from entering the country.

The Department of Homeland Security has undergone a period of upheaval as Trump pushes the agency to consider changes aimed at deterring asylum-seekers from entering the country, like a plan to charge for asylum applications. As the numbers of family units apprehended at the border reach monthly record highs, Trump has fumed. In recent weeks, multiple senior officials, including former leaders of ICE, DHS, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), have been forced to resign.

Administration officials have repeatedly blamed a federal court settlement that blocks authorities from detaining families for longer than a few weeks.

Pierce said the proposal being considered by the administration would do nothing to stop the issues with the asylum system.
“Rather than do the hard work of fixing our outdated asylum system, this administration is just further incentivizing migrants to rush the southern border. By this point, they must know that these harsh and legally dubious actions will do nothing but feed the chaos,” she said.

Ur Jaddou, a former chief counsel at USCIS, said the proposal was cruel. “It will do nothing to address the challenge except to exacerbate it. Central Americans are fleeing a burning house. Slamming the door shut on them and pretending there is no burning house and fleeing people will do nothing to solve the problem.”

Earlier this year, the Trump administration enacted a policy that forces Central American immigrants to remain in Mexico as their asylum cases proceed through the courts. As of last week, some 6,000 immigrants had been pushed into the program. The proposal has thus far survived a legal challenge brought forth by the ACLU earlier this year.

After being blocked by a federal court judge in San Francisco in April, a US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel allowed it to remain in place as the case proceeded, a major victory for the administration.

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Trump Considering Rule Barring Most Central American Migrants from Asylum

Many have travelled through SEVERAL countries!


They are liars, cheaters, and thieves.

Keep them all out!

We are not the dumping ground for the world's problems or THEIR people!

They can apply on their soil.

Yes, deny them all. They're all frauds and con artists. Deny them all.

CONSIDERING????? ANOUNCE THAT TOMMORROW PLEASE!!!!! Thing is, as we all eventually found out on here after weeks and weeks of posting and reading invasion articles, ASYLUM ISN'T THE PROBLEM HERE. It's the detention language in that budget bill he signed in Feb. The illegals ARE NOT applying for asylum and asking for a credible fear interview. They are simply stating, "I WANT TO SEE A JUDGE" and they detain them for a few days and then MOVE THEM OUT into the nation because there's NO DETENTION SPACE and because they can't detain these little bambinos for more than 20 days. That's the situation. I hope he ends asylum for these invaders because the COMMUNIST SCUM in CHICAGO will FLIP and start protesting and I want to counter protest them bad but that isn't going to solve most of this problem. Hate to be negative but facts are facts. I'm also convinced he's the 1 bringing them up in the first place under pressure from the UN and NWO. This invasion is just another 2015 Merkel Germany invasion. Sure looks like it.

Donald Trump: ‘Big League’ Border Policy Soon

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President Donald Trump will announce a major border security reform on Thursday or Friday.

On Thursday morning, Trump told reporters at the White House that he will soon announce “my biggest statement” on border security. “This is a big league statement. We are going to do something very dramatic on the border.”
The announcement will likely reveal that White House officials have drafted a regulation barring asylum seekers who cross a safe country to reach the United States border,according to Politico.
The regulation, if it survives multiple court challenges, would effectively exclude the growing wave of Central American migrants who travel through Mexico — often on chartered buses — to exploit the various catch-and-release rules that let them get job permits.
Politico reported:

A draft proposal circulating among Trump’s Homeland Security advisers would prohibit migrants from seeking asylum if they have transited through a country other than their own before coming to the U.S., according to a DHS official and an outside advocate familiar with the plan. If executed, it would deny asylum to thousands of migrants waiting just south of the border, many of whom have trekked a perilous journey through Mexico.
Trump alluded to the asylum changes Thursday as he departed for Colorado, telling reporters he is “going to do something very dramatic on the border.”
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While Trump aides believe they can make the changes through an administrative rule, they are also seeking a legislative fix that would be far less vulnerable to a court challenge. Similar language is expected to be included in Trump’s new immigration bill that would boost security at the southern border and push the nation to admit more high-skilled, well-educated immigrants, rather than immigrants who enter the U.S. based on family ties, according to two people familiar with the proposal.

A regulatory shift could require a long fight in the courts, said a border law expert.
“The Attorney General could issue a decision on certification that denied [asylum] applications in the exercise of discretion, but even that would require overturning years of case law and require a change in USCIS policy,” said Andrew Arthur, a former immigration judge who works with the Center for Immigration Studies. “What he could do is require [migrants] to apply for asylum at the consulates, either in their country or in Mexico.”
The rush of migrants into U.S. workplaces and schools has spiked in 2019 because the cartels, the migrants, the border agencies, and the voters know that Congress is refusing to block the catch-and-release loopholes which are delivering hundreds of thousands of cheap workers to their political allies and their donors.
The migration means that employers quickly get an extra supply of tough, compliant, low-wage workers just as labor shortages are forcing companies to boost pay for Americans. The extra labor supply also reduces employers’ incentive to hire from the population of 12 million unemployed or underemployed Americans, some of whom are sidelined by disability, underinvestment in rural areas, or drugs.
Trump’s deputies are trying many options to stop the inflow, which is backed by Democrats and many GOP legislators. For example, officials are blocking some migrants from jobs to repay their smuggling costs by requiring them to wait in Mexico while their asylum appeals are processed. Officials are also trying to write a regulation to replace the 2015 Flores decision by a judge which bars the detention of migrant adults for more than 20 days if they bring a child across the border.
Immigration Numbers
Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university.
But the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including roughly one million H-1B workers — and approximately 500,000 blue-collar visa workers.
The government also prints out more than one million work permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas each year.
This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth for investors because it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This policy of flooding the market with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor also shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations. It also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and wealth from the heartland to the coastal cities, explodes rents and housing costs, shrivels real estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...r-policy-soon/

WHY HASN'T 1 SINGLE article showed these illegal invaders getting off those CHRATERED BUSES a few blocks from the border? WHOSE PAYING for all these thousands of chartered bus rides from Southern Mexico up to the border????? This movement of illegals is costing MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of $$$$'s. IT ISN'T THE ILLEGALS!!!!! They're DIRT BROKE ILLITERATES and many are severely SICK and they come with a ton of kids.

Trump announces escalating tariffs against Mexico until illegal immigrants 'STOP'

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Trump announces escalating tariffs against Mexico until illegal immigrants 'STOP'

Whoop-de-do. Like everything else he's tried to date, I doubt this will have any effect.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Trump announces escalating tariffs against Mexico until illegal immigrants 'STOP'

Jeff Rense just said this is just "Another INSULT, another SCAM" I AGREE. Tax the remittances from Mexicans down to their families or JUST STOP THEM. You'll get some action then immediately. WHY ISN'T TRUMP DEMANDING that Mexico stop all these CHARTERED BUSES driving these illegals up to our Southern border from Southern Mexico????? That's how their getting up here. He's NOT MENTIONING THAT because he's behind them coming up here. There was a PLAN and an AGREEMENT. NO OTHER WAY THIS COULD BE HAPPENING.
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