Discussion: Report: Trump Admin Considering Another Change To Limit Asylum Protections

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Stephen Miller: A disgrace to the nation.

A disgrace to the human race.

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Trump wants to detain families for what everyone admits is often a years long process.

And he wants to get rid of judges assigned to handle the cases.

Has anyone looked him in the eye and asked him to reconcile this?

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Fun fact: Miller’s family doesn’t like him, either.

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What’s to reconcile? Defacto life imprisonment. It doesn’t disagree with itself at all.

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In the report’s words, Miller “has argued that Customs and Border Protection agents will be tougher on asylum seekers and will pass fewer of them on the initial screening.”

Here are Millers exact, untranslated words…

…Miller “hat argumentiert, dass Zoll- und Grenzschutzagenten bei Asylbewerbern härter sein werden und weniger von ihnen beim ersten Screening bestehen werden.”

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“Currently, asylum seekers subject to deportation who express fear of returning to their home countries are interviewed to determine “credible fear” by asylum officers from USCIS, which is also housed in DHS.”

Afghanistan and Iraq

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Cutting down on asylum applications from “the wrong sort” is part of three elements to lower legal immigration without changing the law. Kidnapping and imprisoning the babies and children of asylum seekers is part and parcel of this. The other two are to delay and harass applicants for Green cards and to to make the visa process more cumbersome. This is what is occurring.

It’s never been about “illegals”. It’s only about reducing the non-White population of the U.S. no other reason explains the cruelty and other behavior.

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Yes, but once Lindsey Graham recognised that he and Trump were on the same page regarding birthright citizenship, he completely clammed up and got with the program.

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So, apparently there is no actual definition of “credible fear” and/or C&BP agents will ignore or interpret as requested by Trump???

If there IS a standard for what constitutes “credible fear” why would C&BP refer fewer seekers???

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The U.S. knows Iraq and Afghanistan are violent hellholes full of terrorists and mercenaries meting out fatal justice for perceived disoyalty by interpreters and others having worked for the U.S. coalition forces. Yet we put citizens of those countries through hell here when they apply for asylum. Why should anyone believe they’ll get a fair hearing for alleged danger in their Central and South American homelands when people are told to fuck off in cases wherein the danger to them returning home isn’t even in dispute?

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If you’ve ever come through passport control, you know the intimidation they’re trained on, even when you’re a U.S. Citizen travelling for perfectly legitimate reasons.

They’re not like those empathetic USCIS guys, who might actually elicit some information from the applicants.

Make no mistake, this is expected to (and will) drive down accepted asylum claims.

It’s like turning over a pet shelter to Michael Vick to run.

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CNN reporting exit polls say BiBi lost

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Or, it’s like turning over a humanitarian function for Stephen Miller to run.

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I would cast Miller as Renfield in a “Dracula” remake: “Fat Dracula, A Thirst for Blood Money”

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While it’s hard to believe that South and Central American refugees will get a fair shake, it’s clear that ‘45’ pulling this trigger means that he can’t pick ‘winners n losers’ in the end.

Yes, I’m being ‘Polyannish’, but unless you have a better view…

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And at the end he said either “Heil Mick” or “Heil mich.” The transcriber wasn’t sure.

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https://twitter.com/OrenKessler/status/1115691445980205056?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

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Cruelty, ridicule, mockery and debasement are Trump’s oxygen. That this is so obvious, and 63,000,000 nevertheless chose to vote for him, is more troubling I think than almost anything he actually does. Those willing 63,000,000, in the face of Trump’s manifest qualities, represent more of a danger to the nation than Trump does. They’ll still be with us when he’s gone, ready to attach themselves to the next petty little crazed tyrant in waiting.

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