With trump asking for asylum is a crime, especially if the declaration is made to a BP agent after having crossed the Rio Grande and surviving.
If you don’t make it and drown then trump blames the democrat open border policy.
And trump thinks this will get my vote.
Here I have to say that I think trump is a mental case in desperate need of therapy.
the “metering” policy (which limits the number of people given a chance to claim asylum at a port of entry every day) and the “zero tolerance” policy, or the practice of criminally prosecuting everyone who crosses the border illegally.
I have not been following the related and revealing issue of Cuban immigration and or asylum process. But it puts into perfect relief the deep hypocrisy of the United States immigration policy towards Haitians and Central Americans who are fleeing from oppression.
In the aftermath of the Obama Administration normalization of diplomatic relations with Cuba, the NYT carried a long investigative piece on how, after the agreement, Cubans fleeing their Island had developed a new route for the thousands of them seeking to enter the US, now coming via the Texas Border with Mexico, and how they were being given pretty Carte Blanche treatment there (as they have always been given via the more dangerous raft and sailboat alternative).
The GOP Presidents are always much more beholden to the Hard Core Miami First Generation of the Cuban Exilio (because that generation blames JFK and Democrats for not going to WW3 with Russia during the Bay of Pigs, and Clinton and Democrats for refusing to pander to the Exilio Cubano by keeping Elian Gonzalez from his Father) and I am sure not a single one of the Cuban families coming across the Texas Border has had their children separated from them while they are ushered through the same ICE trailers turned into processing and detention facilities and whatever accelerated accommodation ICE has for them.
Here?
Here, there, everywhere.
That’s more like it!
You know Republicans will look upon this as the Castro-ation of Murika.
It’s about time someone demanded this. Never made sense to prosecute people seeking asylum. The GOP will be tearing down the Statue of Liberty next.