Trump must put pressure on Mexico to block migrant
caravan from Honduras, by Ann Corcoran, 10/17/18.
In
an interview with Breitbart radio,
Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies gives
the President sound advice.
Honduran government begs the migrants to
turn around.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/16/honduras-begs-migrant-caravan-turn-back/
I’m
writing about this story again today because I noted how interested you are in
it after my post yesterday, and because it is an opportunity
to inform more of you about the other part of our US refugee system—namely the
asylum process.
Just
recently, here, I
told you about asylum and how it is part and parcel of the Refugee Act of 1980, but is being scammed and abused by
thousands in recent years.
Simply:
refugees are selected abroad as supposedly persecuted people and flown here
(that is what all this 30,000 cap business
is all about). The Hondurans and others who ask for asylum are not part
of that cap.
Asylum seekers get to America on their own steam and then claim they
will be persecuted if returned home.
If
granted asylum they are then considered refugees. However, most of those headed
our way are what are called economic migrants in migration lingo.
From Breitbart:
Jessica Vaughan: Trump Should ‘Put Pressure on Mexico’ to Block Migrant
Caravans
Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration
Studies, advised the Trump administration to pressure Mexico against allowing
entry to caravans of migrants seeking passage to the U.S.
Vaughan
offered her remarks in a Monday interview with Breitbart News Editor-at-Large
Rebecca Mansour on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Vaughan
described existing U.S. refugee asylum policies as incentivizing foreigners to
seek entry into the homeland via their humanitarian provisions, recalling
previous analyses offered on an earlier migrant caravan’s access to America.
“It’s
really our policy that is enticing them to come, and I am surprised it took
this long,” said Vaughan. “This is not the choice of the Trump administration.
It certainly does not want to entice people to take this dangerous journey, and
when you look the pictures, it is a lot of young men, but it’s also some kids
coming, too. It’s dangerous for them, but it now has this aura of an adventure
that people are taking, like the gold rush or something.”
Vaughan said aspiring migrants are advised to travel to America by both
smugglers and ostensibly humanitarian groups based in the U.S.
“Migrants
are being told by the smugglers — who I’m sure are among them, or the
organizers, I mean they’re really almost the same thing — to [travel to the
U.S.]. Certainly they’re being
egged on by the humanitarian groups and even by groups within the United
States.”
In
April, Left-wing American lawyers offered migrant caravan travelers “legal
training sessions,” advising migrant what to say to improve their likelihood of
obtaining entry to the U.S. in their dealing with immigration judges and asylum
officers.
Vaughan
added, “Why wouldn’t it [the caravan] grow? They are realistically optimistic
that they will be let into the United States. At some point, the Trump administration, the best possible
solution is for them to say, ‘No.’ Or put pressure on Mexico to not issue them
transit visas. They have no basis to enter Mexico unless Mexico is going to
give them asylum.”
Former Senator and now Attorney General
Jeff Sessions has ordered asylum judges to stick to the legal definition of
persecution when weighing asylum claims. Running from gang violence,
abusive husbands or looking for work are not grounds for admission.
Vaughan
described Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s new directives to immigration judges
and asylum officers. “Claiming to have witnessed violence or to have
come from a violent place is not good enough to get you into the country to
make an asylum claim, to pass your ‘credible fear’ test,”
stated Vaughan. “They’re expected now to show that the persecution that they
claim was carried out by the government, or with the government’s blessing.
General violence is not going to cut it.”
Vaughan
said, “The best possible solution is to not let [caravan migrants] enter,”
adding that “it is obvious to everyone” that the caravan migrants’ motivations
are “economically based.”
Vaughan
explain, “The goal should be
to have people not get across, at all, because then it’s a whole different
story once they set foot in the United States, whether they’ve been admitted or
paroled or whatever. As soon as we let them across, that’s when it becomes
extremely difficult to remove them and return them to their home countries.” There
is much more here.
Temporary Protected
Status connection?
I
wouldn’t put it past the Open Borders activists to ultimately use this caravan
PR campaign to try to get the Trump administration to reverse its decision to
rescind the Temporary
Protective Status for Hondurans already in the US. See here, and here.
How
can the President be so mean as to return thousands of Hondurans already in the
US to a country where so many are trying to escape, they might say.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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