Many of these Democrats complained about border states and Colorado sending illegal aliens/asylum seekers to deep blue sanctuary cities
77 Democrats send a letter to Biden criticizing his border and immigration policies
A group of 77 Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Wednesday criticizing his administration’s policies restricting asylum access for migrants crossing the southern border.
The letter, signed by New Jersey Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 74 others, said the new policies announced Jan. 5 to open more legal options for migrants from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba while also eliminating pathways for those nationalities to claim asylum at the border are “disappointing.”
While 30,000 migrants from those four countries will be eligible to apply for humanitarian parole protections from their home countries, Mexico has also agreed to take back 30,000 migrants per month from those same countries as the Biden administration expands the Trump-era Covid protections known as Title 42.
At a press conference Thursday, Menendez said, “We recognize that the United States is experiencing a difficult migration challenge at the southern border. But as elected officials, we are duty-bound to propose legal solutions, one that protects asylum-seekers while also securing the safe removal of migrants who have no legal claim to stay in the United States.”
AOC called the shipping of illegals as a crime against humanity, right after the states started shipping them to NYC, and was livid at NYC Mayor Adams for having tent cities in her district. Menendez and Booker, and many others were also Outraged. See, they’re good with illegals being shipped all over the country after streaming to the border to claim asylum, just not to their own areas.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has also said the administration is preparing to propose a new federal rulemaking that would allow his department to deny the right to claim asylum at the southern border for migrants who do not first seek asylum in a country they pass through.
Well, it’s a start, but, they should be required to apply for asylum outside the U.S. and remain outside the U.S. till that process is complete.
“Instead of issuing a new asylum transit ban and expanding Title 42,” the Democratic lawmakers said in the letter to Biden, “we encourage your administration to stand by your commitment to restore and protect the rights of asylum seekers and refugees.” The letter noted that asylum is an international right that should not be restricted.
When will these Democrats take asylum seekers into their own homes during the hearing process? And continue hosting them after they blow off their hearings/are denied.
But not signed by the mayors of the cities to which the illegals are being sent, right?
OK – so joe has restricted a vital resource for TWENTY YEARS!! So CONGRESS needs to pass a law that REQUIRES any EV’s SOLD in the USA to be made with ONLY USA MATERIALS! Let the DEMOcrats vote against US RESOURCES!!
There is no international right to migrate to a country of your choice.
In other countries, when you apply and are granted asylum, your stay in the host country is not permanent or irrevocable. In other countries, having a child in the host country does not make you or your baby citizens on that country.
In America, asylum rules are a cold war artifact. The cold war is over. There should be no asylum in the USA for any reason. People who want to come here should use the regular immigration system. Large parts of America are already becoming like third world countries. The immigrants are not casting off their chains and yearning to breathe free. They bring their chains with them.
The planet has nearly 200 countries. Let asylum seekers go somewhere else.
Commenter:
The US Constitution clearly states: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
It would take a Constitutional Amendment to change that. The parents of the child born in America do not automatically become citzens. It is quite possible to pass such an amendment.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.