So what
is this asylum issue the Secretary of State mentioned? By Ann Corcoran,
9/19/18.
In other words
Pompeo is saying that the Trump Administration is going to focus first on a
huge backlog of asylum claims.
So what is this asylum issue? Perhaps we haven’t
talked about it enough over the years, but asylum is the other side of a
two-sided coin for ‘refugee’ admissions to the US.
The asylum system here and in Europe has been massively
scammed where worldwide millions are claiming asylum when in fact most are
economic migrants or just plain crooks.
Refugee Industry thrilled with Asylum avenue to America!
Refugee Industry thrilled with Asylum avenue to America!
Several
people have asked me about the statement made by Secretary of State Pompeo when
he announced the Administration’s intentions of capping refugee admissions at
30,000.
According to the New York Times, Pompeo mentioned a backlog of
800,000 asylum cases piled up in immigration courts and the NYT is quick to
point out that the number is too high. It is ONLY 320,000!
(And, remember readers that
those waiting for their asylum hearing are mostly free to roam the USA,
relatively few are in detention!)
See here: “This year’s refugee ceiling reflects
the substantial increase in the number of individuals seeking asylum in our
country, leading to a massive backlog of outstanding asylum cases and greater
public expense,” he added.
Nazanin Ash (left) speaking for refugee
contractor the International Rescue Committee: “In justifying its
policy intention, the administration has pitted those seeking asylum against
refugees.”
Mr. Pompeo said refugees had
to be weighed against a backlog of 800,000 asylum seekers who are awaiting a
decision by immigration authorities about whether they qualify as in need of
protection under United States law and will be granted status to remain.
But he vastly overstated the
numbers, while making a linkage between two groups of immigrants that are not
the same and are processed differently.
As of the end of June,
the Department of Homeland Security reported just under 320,000 people who had
claimed asylum — meaning they had passed an interview
conducted to verify that they met the “credible fear” threshold to be
considered — and were awaiting a decision from the department about whether
they could stay.
About 730,000 additional
immigrants were waiting for their cases to be resolved by immigration courts,
according to the Justice Department…
The cap we are talking about refers
to the refugees who are found abroad, are accepted
for admission and are flown here at taxpayers’ expense and turned over to one
of the nine refugee resettlement contractors for care.
Asylum seekers are people who got to the US on
their own dime and upon entering the country across a border illegally (or
sometimes with a legal visa) they request asylum claiming they would be
persecuted if returned home. They then go through a legal process to
determine if their claims are legitimate or not. (Another can of worms involves
the question of how many of those whose claims of asylum were rejected actually
leave the country!)
If granted asylum they are
called Asylees and are eligible for all of the social service goodies we give
to the refugees we fly in. Therefore, US taxpayers’ generosity is not only to
the smaller number of refugees we flew in, but potentially to tens of thousands
more each year!
There are so many that they
are overwhelming our legal system and that is why Sec. of State Pompeo says we
are prioritizing—getting those hundreds of thousands processed.
(See Jim Simpson’s chart in this post to see how many had successful
asylum claims for each of the last 10+ years. Total is over 266,000 since
2008!)
In
2010 I attended the 30th anniversary celebration for the Refugee Act of 1980 at
Georgetown University in Washington, DC and was struck by the focus speakers
were placing on the asylum process.
At the Georgetown anniversary event, it
was Doris Meissner (who apparently had a role in crafting the Refugee Act of
1980) who said with obvious pleasure: We only expected the odd Russian
ballet dancer to use the asylum process, but now (yippee!) large numbers of
migrants are using it!
They were downright giddy
that so many migrants were now showing up at our borders seeking asylum. In fact, they seemed to be
conscious of the fact that there were limits to the numbers they could get in
to the US in the normal refugee admissions process even before Trump ever
appeared on their radar screens.
In
2011, after seeing more stories about asylum seekers arriving at our borders
from far flung places like Somalia, I wrote this post: Is there a conspiracy by NGO’s to bring asylum
seekers to US borders? I said this at the time about the Georgetown
shindig after calling for a Congressional investigation.
I was also struck at the
conference by how much emphasis the pro-refugee, pro-open borders activists and
speakers were placing on our asylum program. They wanted to educate more
asylum lawyers and hire more asylum judges (apparently the refugee program
itself wasn’t bringing immigrants in fast enough!). One speaker even said
that the original
idea behind the program was to rescue the odd ballet dancer seeking asylum from
some repressive regime, but had now expanded to thousands every year.
You can read the whole post here, but
the gist of it was that I believe the international open borders Leftists are
actively involved in pushing migrants to first world countries’ borders (maybe
even paying their way!) where, having been previously coached, they know how to
ask for asylum. Of course that is exactly what we are seeing now here and
in Europe.
By the way, check out the whole NYT story. The reporter says that Secretary of State Pompeo wanted to keep the CAP
where it was at 45,000, but Stephen Miller in the White House pushed for an
even lower ceiling.
See my post yesterday where I say it should have been ZERO!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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