U.S. to change migration rules in a bid to send asylum seekers elsewhere

Reuters via YAHOO ^ | November 18, 2019 | Ted Hesson

[Farcesensitive]

The Trump administration is set to harden the rules this week on those allowed to seek asylum in the United States, as it attempts to stem a wave of migration on its southern border with Mexico.

In a fast-track regulation set to publish in the Federal Register on Tuesday, the administration has created a framework that will allow asylum seekers to be sent to other nations that have negotiated bilateral agreements to accept them.

Previously, officials in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have argued that migrants with a valid need for asylum should seek protection in the first 'safe' country where they have the chance to apply, since many migrants travel through multiple countries on their way to the U.S. border.

However, the new regulation states that asylum seekers may be sent to any other countries with which the United States has asylum agreements that permit such an action - even if they did not first transit through those nations.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Works for me.

[grobdriver]

set to harden the rules this week on those allowed to seek asylum in the United States

Asylum denied. Next!

[angmo]

We should have bilateral agreements with Haiti, DR, Honduras, Guatemala, Venezuela, Yemen, Somalia, Chad, Libya, Bolivia, Iraq, Pockystahn, Afghanistan, Antarctica, the Moon, and the North Pole.

[jmacusa]

I LIKE IT! Sorry pal, we’re all filled up. Try Canada, eh? They got free health up there.

[John O]

NO Not Canada!! We do not have an enforceable border with Canada. We’d ship the invaders there and they’d just come south over our undefended border.

Keep them in mexico where we can keep an eye on them and where (hopefully soon) we will have a defensible border. (Big wall!)

[jmacusa]

Oh well, you don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot? You Canadians have been lecturing We The People down here for years about how racist it is that we try and prevent this human garbage from overwhelming our country and suddenly you don't want to practice ‘’diversity’’?

[jdsteel]

Next up...ending the practice of giving citizenship to anyone who happens to be born on US soil. It’s nowhere in the Constitution.What IS in there referred to the slaves of Southern Democrats.

[John O]

Hey jmacusa, read my post again. I am NOT Canadian (although my great Grandma was).

I do not want to send anyone to Canada who could easily cross our undefended border with Canada and sneak into my country.