Opinion: A broken asylum system all but guarantees entry if you bring children, writes The Editorial Board
Immigration politics is so polarized that right and left have a veto over any constructive policy. Yet a genuine crisis is building at the southern border as the perverse incentives of U.S. asylum law invite a surge of migrants that is overwhelming border security.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said last week that the border has hit “a breaking point” amid a rush of families from Central America. More than a strong U.S. economy is driving this influx. Between 2000 and 2017, apprehensions dropped...
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Number of asylum seekers sent back over border to growIn an effort to address the rising number of arriving Central Americans, an official says the Trump administration plans to greatly expand the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day.
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Former Homeland Security secretary: Another family separation crisis may be looming at Mexico border'The idea of sending a 7-year-old back to Central America without due process is something that most Americans should have serious objections to.'
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Here's what's driving the ‘crisis’ at the borderFreshman Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar (who represents El Paso) was livid about Customs and Border Protection detaining migrant families in a parking lot: “They knew that the numbers would increase. Why were they not planning?”
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U.S. has hit ‘breaking point’ at border amid immigration surge, Customs and Border Protection commissioner saysHomeland Security plans to send staffers from other agencies to border to cope with migrant surge that includes asylum seekers and their children.
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Trump calls asylum claims a 'big fat con job,' says Mexico should stop migrant caravans from traveling to U.S. border'[Immigrants are] met by the lawyers, and they say, ‘Say the following phrase: I am very afraid for my life. I am afraid for my life.’ Okay. And then I look at the guy. He looks like he just got out of the ring. He’s a heavyweight champion of the world. It’s a big fat con job,' Trump said.
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Trump admin. orders faster personnel surge to border, wants more asylum seekers returned to MexicoHomeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday directed Customs and Border Protection to speed its planned surge of 750 officers to assist the US Border Patrol along areas of the southern border where there has been a influx of migrants crossing into the US from Mexico.
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