Illegals no longer eligible for asylum claims

Fox News:
The Trump administration announced Thursday that migrants who attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally will not be eligible to claim asylum under a new rule meant to crack down on "meritless" claims.

The rule, which prevents migrants from claiming asylum if they do not do so at an official border crossing, is the latest attempt by the White House to handle a surge in migration to the U.S. from the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. President Trump is expected to formally enact the rule in a presidential proclamation Friday.

"Consistent with our immigration laws, the President has the broad authority to suspend or restrict the entry of aliens into the United States if he determines it to be in the national interest to do so," Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a joint statement. " ... Our asylum system is overwhelmed with too many meritless asylum claims from aliens who place a tremendous burden on our resources, preventing us from being able to expeditiously grant asylum to those who truly deserve it. Today, we are using the authority granted to us by Congress to bar aliens who violate a Presidential suspension of entry or other restriction from asylum eligibility.”

The rule, which is likely to be challenged in court by pro-immigration groups, was spurred in part by caravans of Central American migrants walking toward the border. They are now about 600 miles away. Trump has vowed to stop them from entering the country and made the issue a key part of his closing argument ahead of this week's midterm elections.
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This seems like a sensible way to deal with an abuse of the asylum system.  I think also that people who have been offered asylum in Mexico are elsewhere would also be ineligible for asylum and should be turned away at the border.  The asylum system was never intended to be an invitation to economic migrants.

One of the problems with the opens borders left is they have no limiting principle on immigration.  They would allow two billion immigrants into the US under their current policies.  They have no realistic policy to control the border.  They see these migrants as people who even if they never get citizenship would be counted in the census and help create more Democrat controls House seats.

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