Trump Admin Slaps Sweeping Restrictions On Asylum-Seekers

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Maybe this will end the domestic shortage of toothbrushes and toothpaste. I’m tired of the riots at CVS and Walgreens.

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Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan said in his statement that the new rule “will reduce the overwhelming burdens on our domestic system.”

I guess this means we’re clearing the way for another sweeping election-year tax cut.

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So you have to apply from a country that will kill you for applying. Got it.

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Too mercifully short a way to go for him…

I prefer he die of syphilis in jail

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I can get you some on the black market. Meet me behind the old Dollar General store as 2:00am and bring cash. $2 bills preferable.

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…the Trump Standard.

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Asylum is a human right.

I don’t see how he can do this.

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He’s trying to adopt the European model, where refugees claim asylum in the first EU country they reach, because everywhere in the EU is considered a safe zone…

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For that to happen, there has to be a heart.

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I agree. There is a “Safe Third Country” agreement between the US and Canada, but this is pure Executive fiat. He’s trying to overrule US treaty and statutory obligations with the stroke of a pen. This is bullshit. I think it’s patently illegal.

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“This Rule is a lawful exercise of authority provided by Congress to restrict eligibility for asylum,”

No it isn’t. The AG has the rule making authority to remove an alien, pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral agreement, to a country (other than the country of the alien’s nationality) in which the alien’s life would not be threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and where the alien would have access to a full and fair procedure for determining a claim to asylum or equivalent temporary protection. 8 US Code §1158 Not sure how many safe countries we have agreements with.

@tena @katscherger @ncsteve @redhand

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Not just Central Americans. We’ve had lots of African refugees show up of late after long journeys through CA and Mexico then long bus rides up from Texas.

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cue the temporary injunction from a slew of federal courts in 3…2…1…

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Yes which is entirely different. That’s like letting them have asylum in Texas and it’s also good in Iowa.

That’s not what he’s doing.

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I thought he’d already married her?

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Nah. Susan B. Anthony Dollars or nuttin’

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I’ll take it any way fate wants to serve it up.

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…and Trump thinks it’s Monday.

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Maybe a tax cut for the middle class that was scheduled during the break just before the 2018 elections?

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Next edict by the Supreme Leader:
Any migrant family whose surname ends in “-ez” shall be denied the opportunity to seek asylum in the U.S.