Dealing with the current asylum scam on the border

Nicholas Waddy:

Political commentator Steve Cortes suggested recently that President Trump should declare a second national emergency on our southern border. The first such emergency was designed to divert funds towards wall construction, but Cortes argues that by itself won’t deter the current wave of migrants, mostly from Central America. This is because they know that our immigration system is broken. They know that, if they make it to the U.S. border, and if they bring their children with them and make an asylum claim, Customs and Border Protection officials will have no choice, given recent judicial rulings, but to release them into the U.S. population.

Moreover, because of the current backlog in asylum cases, these migrants will wait (comfortably) in the United States anywhere from three to five years before a judge can hear their cases. They may or may not show up for their hearings. Trump may or may not be president in five years. Instead, an open-borders socialist may occupy the Oval Office.

Thus, whether we eventually build a wall is irrelevant to the calculations of the current crop of migrants, because they know, right now and for the foreseeable future, illegal immigration simply is not punished in the United States. On the contrary, it is rewarded.

By declaring a second national emergency, Cortes suggests Trump might be empowered to deport summarily anyone who crosses the border illegally. This would certainly be a game-changer. If migrants knew that their dream of worming their way into America was hopeless, they would cease to make the trip. The existing border crisis would be at an end.

The problem with Cortes’ suggestion is that the Trump Administration has already tried to implement policies that automatically deny Central Americans and sundry border-hoppers eligibility to apply for asylum. In effect, the Supreme Court has already ruled—thanks to Chief Justice Roberts, who sided with the court’s four liberals—that illegal crossers are entitled to an asylum hearing. A more recent case may even give rejected asylum seekers the right to appeal. Given the massive backlog, this guarantees asylum seekers, even the most dishonest and dangerous among them, the right to impose themselves on the American people for years to come.

Cortes is gambling that another national emergency declaration would change the legal equation. It’s certainly worth trying, but given the sheer irrationality of the current system and the out-of-touch judges who preside over it, we must consider practicable alternatives.
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Another option would be to declare an additional national emergency in order to militarize U.S. immigration courts. This would allow military personnel to serve as immigration judges, and these new judges could clear the backlog of asylum cases. Currently, there are only 400 immigration judges to hear more than 800,000 cases—thus the delay of up to five years.

By going this route, Trump could accelerate the adjudication of asylum claims. In fact, he could guarantee that future asylum requests would be processed on the spot. The migrants would thus never be released into the general population, and the vast majority of them would be quickly deported.

Would “Obama judges” attack such a program, and would the media condemn it? This is virtually guaranteed, but the fact remains that using the U.S. military to uphold the integrity of our borders is a mission consonant with its basic purpose—national defense.

Currently, U.S. military personnel at the border are banned from carrying out law enforcement functions, making them, in effect, mere auxiliaries to the Border Patrol. By deputizing U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines to serve as immigration judges, President Trump could vastly increase the effectiveness of the military in facing—even solving—our current border crisis.

Given the determination of the Democrats and leftist judges to block any commonsensical immigration policy, the Trump Administration needs to think big and act boldly. Militarizing our immigration courts could be the solution.
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I think they need to racially grow the current court system to grow the number of judges that can handle the asylum cases.  They could bring back retired judges from around the country to hear the cases and expeditiously handle them on the spot. They should also block the jurisdiction of the Ninth circuit to handle any of these cases.  Those judges have shown a bias toward illegal immigrants that is inconsistent with their oath of office.