With border security legislation unlikely in Congress, the White House wants to take action. Migrant crossings are expected to soar back to last year’s record levels.
Did you know that nations aren’t a house and aren’t analogous at all?
International and US law dictate that if you go to the US and make an asylum claim, you are there legally, by definition, until your case is heard. Trying to keep them out or deport them is in direct violation of those laws, purely for the sake of appealing to racist dipshits that have bought into the fear mongering about the border.
If the US government (all governments, really) would simply put resources into processing those claims and making real pathways to citizenship, rather than brutalizing them for being born on the other side of a border and being brown, this “problem” could have been solved long ago.
International and US law dictate that if you go to the US and make an asylum claim, you are there legally, by definition, until your case is heard.
And if you sneak across the border wherever you can manage and only make an asylum claim if/when caught…? Like, surely, there has to be an argument that you have to present yourself at the border and make such a claim for it to be valid? But then most illegal immigrants in the US are people who’ve received temporary visas and then just not left when it expired.
Did you know that nations aren’t a house and aren’t analogous at all?
International and US law dictate that if you go to the US and make an asylum claim, you are there legally, by definition, until your case is heard. Trying to keep them out or deport them is in direct violation of those laws, purely for the sake of appealing to racist dipshits that have bought into the fear mongering about the border.
If the US government (all governments, really) would simply put resources into processing those claims and making real pathways to citizenship, rather than brutalizing them for being born on the other side of a border and being brown, this “problem” could have been solved long ago.
It doesn’t help that 99% of Americans are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.
And if you sneak across the border wherever you can manage and only make an asylum claim if/when caught…? Like, surely, there has to be an argument that you have to present yourself at the border and make such a claim for it to be valid? But then most illegal immigrants in the US are people who’ve received temporary visas and then just not left when it expired.