Zakaria is spot on and it's time for Congress to act.
Posted on 07/03/2019 11:33:01 AM PDT by jazusamo
The situation on the U.S. southern border with Mexico continues to deteriorate as hundreds of thousands of Central Americans falsely claim asylum, overwhelming Border Patrol and HHS facilities.
But while most Democrats are still sitting by with complaints and false accusations instead of solutions, others are finally admitting a crisis exists.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria is one of them, who took time on his show this week to detail how the current asylum system is being gamed at devastating levels.
"It pains me to say this but he [President Trump] is right that the United States faces a crisis with its asylum system," he said. "Since 2014, the flow of asylum seekers in to the United States has skyrocketed. Last year immigration courts received 162,00 asylum claims, a 240 percent increase since 2014. The result is a staggering backlog with more than 300,000 claims pending and the average immigration case has been pending on average for more than 700 days."
"It's also clear the rules surrounding asylum are vague, lax and being gamed," he continued. "Some applicants for asylum have suspiciously similar stories, using identical phrases. Many simply use the system to enter the U.S. and then melt into the shadows or gain a work permit. Asylum is meant to be granted to a very small amount of people in extreme circumstances, not as a substitute for the process of immigration itself."
Zakaria pointed out the initial standard for asylum is far too broad and that while the murder rate in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala has been cut in half, thousands of migrants are falsely claiming asylum due to "violence."
"Hundreds of millions of people who live around the world in poor, unstable regions where threats of violence abound, could easily apply for asylum. Do they all have a legal right to enter the U.S. through a back door? By passing the normal immigration process?" he asked. "The criteria for asylum need to be rewritten and substantially tightened...people should not be able to use asylum claims as a way to work in America."
Zakaria is spot on and it's time for Congress to act.
fixed it.
A tragic hang gliding accident is scheduled for early next Monday ...
Trump is wining on this issue while Democrats hitch their wagon to the losing side.
Never happen. Democrats don’t fix things.
If Democrats fixed problems, there would be no Democrats..............
Did Hell just freeze over?
Must be getting close to it, it’s amazing.
But, but, but... I thought it was a 'manufactured crisis'... /s
Ok, somthing’s up. They’ve started admitting there’s a crisis.
I expect He will be forced to ‘issue and apology’ for his statement in the following days
Kinda takes Biden’s and a few other Dem candidates issue away.
preciseomudo- They are planning something-
He's not even happy with himself, but at least he chose honesty over partisanship.
I wonder if all the usual suspects in the lib media got together to draw lots, to see who would get the short straw of being the first one forced to admit this....
They own this catastrophe.
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Wondering if he knows CNN’s headed for the toilet and he’s burnishing his credentials to hopefully land a job at a less nutcase network?
Exactly! At least he has the class to address this issue accurately.
It pains me to say this but he [President Trump] is right
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