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Trump pushes on with immigration crackdown despite legal hurdles

By Bryan Pietsch and Daina Beth Solomon

 

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A man stands near the border fence between Mexico and U.S. in Tijuana, Mexico July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

 

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration pushed ahead with its attempts to crack down on migration at the southern border on Monday, defending in court a virtual ban it imposed on asylum seekers and issuing its second sweeping order within a week.

 

A U.S. district judge in Washington heard arguments about whether to temporarily strike down the first new rule, which is designed to bar almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the country's southern border.

 

The Trump administration unveiled the rule a week ago as part of an effort to end what it has called fraudulent asylum claims from an increasing number of migrants, mainly from the impoverished and violence-plagued Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, who pass through Mexico on their way to the United States.

 

Judge Timothy Kelly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia withheld ruling on whether to issue a temporary restraining order to block the rule on asylum seekers pending a trial, saying he would make that decision soon.

 

Justice Department lawyer Scott Stewart told the judge that a temporary restraining order would prompt a dangerous surge on the border from migrants seeking to get into the United States while the case was being heard.

 

The suit was brought by the Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a similar suit in federal court in California, due for a hearing on Wednesday.

 

As the asylum rule faced its first court fight, the Trump administration on Monday unveiled a new regulation that would order expedited deportations for tens of thousands of people who could be deprived of a review by an immigration judge.

 

"For the past two and half years there has been one attack after another on immigrants but the pace has increased beyond anything we have seen just in the past few weeks," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants Rights Project.

 

Ahead of a presidential race in 2020, Trump is seeking to show voters he has carried out pledges to take a tough stance on illegal immigration. Voters sent him to the White House in a 2016 campaign in which he promised to build a border wall and ban immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries.

 

Democrats have blasted the policies as cruel, faulting the Trump administration for warehousing migrants in crowded and unsanitary detention facilities along the border and separating immigrant children from the adults with whom they had travelled.

 

The ACLU, which has filed suit to block numerous Trump immigration policies in court, vowed to challenge the expedited deportations as well.

 

The Trump administration has had mixed results trying to implement its most restrictive immigration policies. It had to revise its attempt to ban most people from certain predominantly Muslim countries multiple times before the courts would allow it.

 

The acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is presuming the latest restriction on asylum will get rejected by the courts, according to an interview he gave to National Public Radio.

 

"We're actually anticipating the... regulation will be enjoined. And then we'll have to go from there, as unfortunately, many times, this happens," Mike Morgan told NPR last week.

 

The new rule requires asylum seekers to first pursue safe haven in a third country through which they had travelled on their way to the United States. But the legal challenges contend that Trump cannot force those migrants to apply for asylum elsewhere unless the United States has a "safe third country" agreement with that country.

 

Mexico, which would be most affected by the new rule, cut off discussions with the United States about reaching such an agreement, its foreign minister said on Monday.

 

The Trump administration had previously given Mexico until July 22 to significantly lower migration flows but the deadline passed without comment from Washington.

 

Guatemala, another country that could be forced to process asylum claims of migrants headed for the United States, previously rejected U.S. entreaties on a similar deal.

 

(Reporting by Bryan Pietsch in Washington; Daina Beth Solomon, Miguel Angel Lopez and Rebekah F Ward in Mexico City; Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; and Mica Rosenberg in New York; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)

 

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Good. If you're an illegal alien, you need to be deported. If you're gaming the system, you need to be deported. If you have a deportation order, you need to be deported. 

 

And if you illegally cross the border and 'claim asylum' conveniently when you're caught, you need to be deported. 

 

The United States is a sovereign nation with Immigration laws and citizens interests to protect above all else. 

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25 minutes ago, Tug said:

Oh boy here we go again 

If they keep coming there is no choice, Obama deported more illegals than any other President, Trump is only carrying on where he left off, it's his duty to protect the country.

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2 hours ago, Thainesss said:

Good. If you're an illegal alien, you need to be deported. If you're gaming the system, you need to be deported. If you have a deportation order, you need to be deported. 

 

And if you illegally cross the border and 'claim asylum' conveniently when you're caught, you need to be deported. 

 

The United States is a sovereign nation with Immigration laws and citizens interests to protect above all else. 

And if you illegally cross the border and 'claim asylum' conveniently when you're caught, you need to be deported. 

 

Not a lawyer then.

 

The United States is a sovereign nation with Immigration laws and citizens interests to protect above all else. 

 

And the US has a Constitution has laws and has signed international treaties. 

 

ARTICLE II, SECTION 2, CLAUSE 2 of the Constitution of the United States.

 

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12 hours ago, Thainesss said:

Good. If you're an illegal alien, you need to be deported. If you're gaming the system, you need to be deported. If you have a deportation order, you need to be deported. 

 

And if you illegally cross the border and 'claim asylum' conveniently when you're caught, you need to be deported. 

 

The United States is a sovereign nation with Immigration laws and citizens interests to protect above all else. 

When did seeking asylum become illegal?how come before Donald the border was so quiet ?how come when Donald had control of both houses all was signed off ready to go and Donald wouldent sign you rember Easter Sunday 2 years ago???yes that’s right your boy comes out on Easter Sunday no less spewing dacas dead dacas dead you remember don’t you?

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9 hours ago, Tug said:

When did seeking asylum become illegal?how come before Donald the border was so quiet ?how come when Donald had control of both houses all was signed off ready to go and Donald wouldent sign you rember Easter Sunday 2 years ago???yes that’s right your boy comes out on Easter Sunday no less spewing dacas dead dacas dead you remember don’t you?

How come you don't know that 'seeking asylum' has never been denied?  how come you don't know there is a process?

as for "dacas dead dacas dead" must mean something to you but might allude most of us.

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45 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And if you illegally cross the border and 'claim asylum' conveniently when you're caught, you need to be deported. 

 

Not a lawyer then.

 

So, just to be clear, you believe it is legal to cross the border illegally, then claim asylum. 

 

And to further clarify, you believe that this is fine, and that people south of the border can get special asylum treatment due to their ability to circumvent immigration laws, but people who reside in countries where its impossible to just walk across the US border have a different set of rules they have to follow to claim asylum. 

 

PS: Neither are you. 

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Daca refers to kids brought here illegally when they were young they were raised here it’s the only home they know so that should enlighten you as to daca kids ok now as for stabbing allies you know about natio don’t you?as for insulting pows you know who John McCain was don’t you?you know the guy who had the crap beat out of him for 5 yrs when your Donald was hanging out in discos you know the guy Donald wouldent fly the flag half staff forhope that helps

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24 minutes ago, Tug said:

When did seeking asylum become illegal?

It never became illegal, but the issue is not going through the proper process. You can not just jump the border illegally and THEN claim asylum. You can not and will not be granted simply for a poor economic migrant looking for work. 

 

Every other country has to go through a process to claim asylum and they cant even come to the USA until the claim is granted (for the most part), yet somehow in the minds of Trump-haters and extremist lefties just because its south of the border they can just jump the que, jump the border, and we have to spend BILLIONS of dollars to care for what are mostly ineligible economic migrants that will be deported anyway.

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8 hours ago, Thainesss said:

Good. If you're an illegal alien, you need to be deported. If you're gaming the system, you need to be deported. If you have a deportation order, you need to be deported. 

 

And if you illegally cross the border and 'claim asylum' conveniently when you're caught, you need to be deported. 

 

The United States is a sovereign nation with Immigration laws and citizens interests to protect above all else. 

And if you are the President of The united States then you have to obey the laws of said United States, listen to what the judges rule and abide by their ruling.

Something Trump seems to have a very serious problem doing.

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7 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

And if you are the President of The united States then you have to obey the laws of said United States, listen to what the judges rule and abide by their ruling.

Something Trump seems to have a very serious problem doing.

 

Trump is breaking the law.... By enforcing immigration laws?

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10 hours ago, Thainesss said:

Good. If you're an illegal alien, you need to be deported. If you're gaming the system, you need to be deported. If you have a deportation order, you need to be deported. 

 

And if you illegally cross the border and 'claim asylum' conveniently when you're caught, you need to be deported. 

 

The United States is a sovereign nation with Immigration laws and citizens interests to protect above all else. 

A big amen to that.

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10 hours ago, Thainesss said:

Good. If you're an illegal alien, you need to be deported. If you're gaming the system, you need to be deported. If you have a deportation order, you need to be deported. 

 

And if you illegally cross the border and 'claim asylum' conveniently when you're caught, you need to be deported. 

 

The United States is a sovereign nation with Immigration laws and citizens interests to protect above all else. 

 

 

but, but if they do that where will my poor democratic party get future voters from????

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20 hours ago, rhyddid said:

History teaches that Indian American are the original citizen of US, so all white skin shall be deported, starting from the actual President !

Your statement is pure BS. There is a clear and distinct difference to people born in a country and recognised as citizens to those born elsewhere who would be. 

 

As an Australian whose family has lived there for 200 years, who are you to claim I am not a citizen, or that someone is "more" Australian because of their skin colour. 

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