Trump Orders Overhaul Of U.S.
Asylum System As Crisis At Border Surges, , 4/30/19.
President
Trump has issued an executive order to overhaul of the asylum system for
foreigners seeking to enter the United States as the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico
border spirals out of control.
In a memorandum late Monday, Trump
ordered government officials, including Attorney General William Barr and
acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, to propose new regulations
to establish new fees for asylum seekers and ban those awaiting hearings from
working in the U.S. Trump also gave officials 90 days to propose new
regulations so that all asylum applications can be adjudicated within 180 days.
Currently, some applications take years.
“It is the policy of the executive
branch to manage our humanitarian immigration programs in a safe, orderly
manner that provides access to relief or protection from removal from the
United States for aliens who qualify, and that promptly denies benefits to and
facilitates the removal of those who do not,” Trump wrote in the memo.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief
Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch told a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing
this month that border agents have captured people trying to enter the U.S.
illegally from more than 50 different countries, including Turkey, China,
Bangladesh, Egypt and Romania.
Customs and Border Protection agents
made more than 100,000 arrests or denials of entry in March, the highest in 12
years. What’s more, there are currently more than 800,000 asylum claims in the
works, and all those seeking asylum are allowed to stay in the country.
But very few will win asylum. In
2016, of the more than 400,000 people who were apprehended entering the U.S. illegally,
just 20,000 or so were granted asylum — just 5%.
In February, Trump declared a
national emergency to address the security and humanitarian crisis at the
border. “That emergency continues to grow increasingly severe,” he said in
Monday’s memo.
“In March, more than 100,000
inadmissible aliens were encountered seeking entry into the United States. Many
aliens travel in large caravans or other large organized groups, and many
travel with children. The extensive resources required to process and care for
these individuals pulls U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel away from
securing our Nation’s borders. Additionally, illicit organizations benefit
financially by smuggling illegal aliens into the United States and encouraging
abuse of our asylum procedures. This strategic exploitation of our Nation’s
humanitarian programs undermines our Nation’s security and sovereignty,” he
wrote.
In addition to charging asylum
seekers a fee, Trump also wants to make sure applicants don’t work in the U.S.,
proposing to “bar aliens who have entered or attempted to enter the United
States unlawfully from receiving employment authorization before any applicable
application for relief or protection from removal has been granted, and to
ensure immediate revocation of employment authorization for aliens who are
denied asylum or become subject to a final order of removal.”
Trump also wants his Secretary of
Homeland Security to “reprioritize the assignment of immigration officers and
any other employees of the Department as the Secretary deems necessary and
appropriate to improve the integrity of adjudications of credible and
reasonable fear claims, to strengthen the enforcement of the immigration laws,
and to ensure compliance with the law by those aliens who have final orders of
removal.”
According to the White House,
the number of “aliens who do not show up to court and are ordered removed
in absentia has soared, with 17,200 removal orders issued in absentia in the
first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2019. … If this pace continues, in
absentia removal orders would more than triple the 2013 total.”
April 29,
2019 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
SUBJECT: Additional Measures to Enhance Border Security and Restore Integrity
to Our Immigration System By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to ensure the
safety and territorial integrity of the United States as well as to ensure that
the Nation's immigration laws are faithfully executed, it is hereby ordered as
follows: Section 1. Purpose. As noted in Proclamations 9822 and 9842 of
November 9, 2018, and February 7, 2019, respectively, our immigration and
asylum system is in crisis as a consequence of the mass migration of aliens
across our southern border. In Proclamation 9844 of February 15, 2019, I
declared a national emergency to address the security and humanitarian crisis
at that border. That emergency continues to grow increasingly severe. In March,
more than 100,000 inadmissible aliens were encountered seeking entry into the
United States. Many aliens travel in large caravans or other large organized
groups, and many travel with children. The extensive resources required to
process and care for these individuals pulls U.S. Customs and Border Protection
personnel away from securing our Nation's borders. Additionally, illicit
organizations benefit financially by smuggling illegal aliens into the United
States and encouraging abuse of our asylum procedures. This strategic
exploitation of our Nation's humanitarian programs undermines our Nation's
security and sovereignty. The purpose of this memorandum is to strengthen
asylum procedures to safeguard our system against rampant abuse of our asylum
process. Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the executive branch to manage our
humanitarian immigration programs in a safe, orderly manner that provides
access to relief or protection from removal from the United States for aliens
who qualify, and that promptly denies benefits to and facilitates the removal
of those who do not. Sec. 3. Further Steps to Enhance the Integrity and
Efficiency of the Existing Asylum System.
Within 90
days of the date of this memorandum, the Attorney General and the Secretary of
Homeland Security, as applicable, shall take all appropriate actions to: (a)
propose regulations to ensure that aliens who receive positive fear
determinations pursuant to section 235(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1)) or section 2242 of the Foreign Affairs Reform
and Restructuring Act of 1998 (8 U.S.C. 1231 note) are placed in proceedings
conducted under 8 CFR 208.2(c)(1) and 1208.2(c)(1) or, if not eligible for
asylum, are placed in proceedings conducted under 8 CFR 208.2(c)(2) and
1208.2(c)(2); (b) propose regulations to ensure that, absent exceptional
circumstances, all asylum applications adjudicated in immigration court proceedings
receive final administrative adjudication, not including administrative appeal,
within 180 days of filing, in accordance with section 208(d)(5)(A)(iii) of the
INA (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)(5)(A)(iii)); (c) propose regulations setting a fee for an
asylum application not to exceed the costs of adjudicating the application, as
authorized by section 208(d)(3) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)(3)) and other
applicable statutes, and setting a fee for an initial application for
employment authorization for the period an asylum claim is pending; and (d)
propose regulations under section 208(d)(2) of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)(2))
and other applicable statutes to bar aliens who have entered or attempted to
enter the United States unlawfully from receiving employment authorization
before any applicable application for relief or protection from removal has
been granted, and to ensure immediate revocation of employment authorization
for aliens who are denied asylum or become subject to a final order of removal.
Sec. 4. Allocation of Immigration Officers. The Secretary of Homeland Security
shall reprioritize the assignment of immigration officers and any other
employees of the Department as the Secretary deems necessary and appropriate to
improve the integrity of adjudications of credible and reasonable fear claims,
to strengthen the enforcement of the immigration laws, and to ensure compliance
with the law by those aliens who have final orders of removal. Sec. 5. General
Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or
otherwise affect: (i) the authority granted by law to an executive department
or agency, or the head thereof; or (ii) the functions of the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or
legislative proposals. (b) This memorandum shall be implemented in a manner
consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations. (c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create
any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in
equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. DONALD J.
TRUMP
Comments
This is a
“humanitarian crisis” of their own making. Welfare migrants should be deported
and left on their own without help from US taxpayers. Their welfare eligibility
should be revoked and their due process eligibility should be denied.
All Asylum
applications should be required to be submitted to US Embassies in the
applicant’s home country. Asylum applications should not be accepted at the US
border or US ports of entry.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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