Posted on 05/13/2020 1:44:33 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The U.S. has granted refugee status to just two people since March 21 as the coronavirus pandemic prompted officials to limit the number of refugees coming into the country, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Two people seeking humanitarian protection at the southern border were approved to stay in the U.S., the Post reported that unpublished U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) data showed.
USCIS has conducted 59 screening interviews between March 21 and May 13 under the only category of protection still available during the pandemic: the Convention Against Torture.
Out of those 59, 54 were rejected and three cases are still pending, according to the data obtained by the Post.
President Trump’s administration has cited the pandemic as reasoning for suspending most of the due process rights of migrants in order to protect both Americans and migrants. Officials say they are trying to reduce the number of detainees in U.S. Border Patrol custody because of concerns that coronavirus will rapidly spread in these facilities.
Officials have also sent more than 20,000 unauthorized border-crossers back to Mexico, citing the pandemic.
Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, stood by the current restrictions saying they are intended as a public health response and not permanent immigration policy.
But the administration has long been trying to limit immigration into the country, with the president’s big campaign promise being to build a wall on the southern border. Before the pandemic, Trump officials had attempted to reduce entry with requirements for migrants to wait outside the U.S. before their hearings and policies to ship some asylum seekers from Honduras and El Salvador to Guatemala. <
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We CAN control immigration when we want to!
I propose zero.
... for ten years....
Sounds like we still have a way to go until we get it right.
Shelter in place.
Jury trials have ground to a halt too.
Now we need to start booting out the illegals that are already here.
The only valid case of asylum I’ve heard was a young lady that took the Chief of Police job in Proxedis Guererro and literally ran to the Ft Hancock POE with cartel gunmen after her.
Derail the gravy train and they'll self-deport.
People who reject Islam are in mortal danger. The penalty for leaving this ‘true’ religion is death.
The scribe says that like it is a bad thing. Here is a hint for the three countries named: Stop running your places like $#*+hole countries. Your nearer neighbors Costa Rica and Belize are models of what you could be if you did.
two too many
Obama didn’t give refugee status to Christians fleeing the Middle East.
It's a start.
"Good" news is defined as the point at which the reported numbers are negative... Plus 2 is "so-so" news...
Start the deportations and now! Nothing in the country changes until the deportations are rolling along...
45-million, or so, low-hanging fruit (communist non-citizen voters) ready for the harvesting...
Also, cutting off the flow of not-taxed billions & billions of dollars leaking across the border into mexico may stimulate some self-deportation...
Additionally, jailing anyone (private citizens or company officers & owners) who employs a migrant invader might also lead to some self-deportation...
Mr. President
PLEASE STOP!!!
All this WINNING is driving us delirious
That’s two too many.
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Derail the gravy train and they’ll self-deport.
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The supreme court ruled that the law making it a felony to encourage someone to illegally enter the country or to help them stay.
So wouldn’t any assistance of any kind to a illegal alien be a felony?
Stop all welfare payments.
Stop all illegals from attending schools
Charge any employer that employs illegals with a felony.
and so on.
Go after those that give illegals are reason to sneak across our borders and soon they will stop coming.
What's so special about those two?
“Officials have also sent more than 20,000 unauthorized border-crossers back to Mexico, citing the pandemic.”
I call that a good start. Now, let’s ramp it up.
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