Thursday, August 8, 2019

How Asylum is Abused Everyday

America's asylum laws, meant to help the most vulnerable, have instead become a clogged backdoor for economic migrants.

The reality of 2019 is that the asylum system has evolved into a cheater's backdoor, a pseudo-legal path to immigration not otherwise available to economic migrants.

Since detaining asylum seekers and their families while the processes play out is expensive and politically distasteful, until recently most asylum seekers were instead released into American society to wait out their cases.

Simply making a claim to asylum has often been enough to live and work in America.

People at the border make their asylum claims, and are then nudged a step backward to wait for an answer in Mexico.

Though Mexico does not yet have a formal, safe, third country agreement with the U.S., its Commission for Aid to Migrants projects 80,000 asylum requests.

Of likely voters support efforts to "Prevent migrants from making fraudulent asylum claims and being released into the country." As Europe has acknowledged and America is learning, modern immigration comes with considerable social and political costs.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/want-to-fix-immigration-start-with-the-abused-asylum-system/

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