Tuesday, November 20, 2018

What Congress Can Do Now to Fix Immigration Enforcement

Immigration policy is one of those areas that will likely be a focal point of congressional debate and jockeying.

The answer is quite simple: Fix the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.

Today, our immigration court system is completely overwhelmed.

These glaring loopholes and failures to enforce the law are unsustainable, and are only encouraging more illegal immigration.

Rather than applying for asylum at the U.S. border, asylum-seekers traveling to the U.S. southern border should be required to have their asylum claims heard by a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officer at a U.S. consulate in Mexico.

Congress should reject this settlement in order to allow accompanied children to remain with their parents while they await adjudication of their asylum claims or prosecution for having violated immigration law.

While other enforcement reforms are needed for immigration courts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and getting rid of sanctuary city policies, the above fixes to immigration loopholes would go a long way toward securing the border and stopping illegal immigration.


https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/19/what-congress-can-do-now-to-fix-immigration-enforcement/

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