How did we end up with kids in cages? We put them there, across multiple administrations, creating a politicized immigration and asylum system that constrains better options.
Caught off guard by an influx of asylum seekers from Central America, his administration in 2014 established then-legally permitted family detention centers to hold parents and children-potentially indefinitely-in cages as a means of deterring others.
With no legal avenue to immigrate for work, and with border enforcement stopping many from simply walking north and blending into the estimated 11 million illegals already in the U.S., a vast number of economic migrants now ask for asylum.
The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act requires those seeking asylum to be detained while their cases are processed.
Asylum seekers become eligible for work authorization if their cases have been pending for more than 150 days, as almost all do.
In 1984, only 3 percent of asylum cases from El Salvador and Guatemala were granted, even as U.S.-sponsored wars raged there.
Some 60 percent of likely voters support efforts to "Prevent migrants from making fraudulent asylum claims and being released into the country." This does not grow out of racism or white supremacy, though using those words is an easy way to blame people impacted by decades of imposed change and delete them from the conversation over how to do better.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-we-ended-up-with-kids-in-cages/
Caught off guard by an influx of asylum seekers from Central America, his administration in 2014 established then-legally permitted family detention centers to hold parents and children-potentially indefinitely-in cages as a means of deterring others.
With no legal avenue to immigrate for work, and with border enforcement stopping many from simply walking north and blending into the estimated 11 million illegals already in the U.S., a vast number of economic migrants now ask for asylum.
The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act requires those seeking asylum to be detained while their cases are processed.
Asylum seekers become eligible for work authorization if their cases have been pending for more than 150 days, as almost all do.
In 1984, only 3 percent of asylum cases from El Salvador and Guatemala were granted, even as U.S.-sponsored wars raged there.
Some 60 percent of likely voters support efforts to "Prevent migrants from making fraudulent asylum claims and being released into the country." This does not grow out of racism or white supremacy, though using those words is an easy way to blame people impacted by decades of imposed change and delete them from the conversation over how to do better.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-we-ended-up-with-kids-in-cages/
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