Biden couldn’t have done this day one? He waited till it was campaign season and illegal immigration was dragging his re-election down (not that he’s in it anymore, obviously)?
Behind Biden’s asylum halt: Migrants must say if they fear deportation, not wait to be asked
Posters inside a complex of giant, white tents tell migrants in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Hindi they should tell an officer if they fear being deported and “your claim will be heard.” On a side wall where migrants are seated in a processing area, a video conveys the same message on a loop.
Breaking from a practice in effect since 1997, Border Patrol agents at the holding facility in Tucson, Arizona, and throughout the country no longer ask migrants if they fear deportation. President Joe Biden’s administration temporarily suspended asylum at the border June 5 and, as part of that move, agents do not ask about fears. Migrants must bring it up themselves.
Immigration advocates call it the “shout test” — suggesting migrants must shout their fears — though agents are taught to respond to other signs of distress, such as crying, shaking or a change in tone of voice and to refer migrants for screening if the behavior appears genuine. Anyone not screened can be immediately deported.
How many are being immediately deported? Almost none, if any. How many are reading the posters in the waiting room after they’ve been picked up and immediately making their declaration? It completely invalidates the notion of the border agents no longer asking. And, if some people are flying from the other side of the world, they are not in danger: they have the economic means to invade the U.S., knowing that Biden will deport a small percentage.
If they pass screening at a higher standard, migrants can stay in the U.S. to pursue protections similar to asylum, like those under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. In doing so, the administration argued it is complying with U.S. and international law prohibiting sending people to countries where they face persecution or torture.
The US should only be complying with U.S. law. That’s it. And, since only a bit under 10% qualify for asylum, they should be held and processed immediately, then sent packing, rather than be released into the U.S. on their on recognizance, where the government now has to take care of them.
Those who consider Biden’s policies too soft play down the “shout test” — and the asylum halt broadly — as too little, too late. Robert Law, director for homeland security and immigration at the America First Policy Institute, said the test may have limited impact but not for long.
“Eventually the word will get out to those who are coaching those who are trying to take advantage of the asylum system,” said Law, who dealt with asylum as chief of policy at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services during former President Donald Trump’s administration.
Yes, it will get out.
More than 300 “Serious Incident” reports have been recorded at Bay State migrant-family shelter program sites so far this year, the Herald has learned.
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities has listed a total of 316 Serious Incident reports at hotels, congregate sites, scattered sites, and co-shelters in the Emergency Assistance family shelter program.
The Herald obtained the Bay State’s “Serious Incident Reports Tracker Data” through a public records request after previously revealing how many people had been kicked out of the migrant-family shelter program for “inappropriate actions.”
Illegal immigration advocates will say “but, Americans do crime!” Yes, but, these are not Americans, and they shouldn’t be here, so, that crime rate should be zero.
Don’t forget, this is all on Kamala Harris: she’s the VP of this administration, and Biden made her border czar.
And they should have to say it in English. With no grammatical errors.
A lot of the problems you list are happening at state and local level, as a result of national government policy. There are also significant failures AT the border within federal government programs. One just recently hit the news about a company funded by HHS providing institutional care to unaccompanied minors. That company has made BILLIONS from processing minors and along the way, sexually abusing them. DOJ is making arrests and putting people in prison. The most mentioned problem: Lack of oversight and management. Typical of the Biden administration. Create policies that invite abuse then turn a blind eye when the abuses happen. Credit where it is due: It is the Biden administration DOJ that is (finally) cracking down on this company and their employees.
The rules as stated above seem non-sensical, like most Biden administration rules.
The problem is in what conditions we accept for asylum. As a nation bordered by Mexico and Canada and a few island nations off shore, it seems our asylum obligations should be limited to those places and only under conditions of war, famine, and natural disasters. Asylum is not a general excuse to let in everyone who would rather live here than in their own shithole countries. A genuine asylum seeker should be easily identified by country of origin, reason for asylum, and identifying documentation. No need for judges and special courts.
Further, Asylum seekers status should be temporary. At the end of the crisis, they go home. If they have kids here, they take their kids with them.
Asylum is not pathway to escape regular immigration laws and practices, as are practiced in all the other civilized countries. Nothing wrong with Asylum seekers requesting status changes once they get here, but it needs to be a regularized process that benefits America and supports our national goals. If it only benefit a political party, it isn’t good enough.
BTW, there are lots of people who are getting fabulously wealthy off of all the billions of dollars that are being spent as a consequence of open borders policy. Enough money is flowing to enough people that we no longer need to question why the Democrats are doing this. It’s not about future voters. It’s not about cheap labor. It is about looting the federal treasury. Everything Democrats do is about looting the federal treasury and handing it out to grateful followers. That doesn’t even include the immigrants themselves. Billions in no bid contracts that have no contract oversight and no control on behalf of the taxpayers who are footing the bill. All seemingly invisible, just like the people who are really running the government.