AG Jeff Sessions carrying out Trump immigration
restriction agenda, by Ann Corcoran, 9/20/18.….and boy are the Leftwing Open Borders agitators steamed!
Former
US Senator and now Attorney General Sessions, who you will recall got on the
Trump train in the earliest days of the campaign, is quietly carrying out an
immigration restriction agenda at the Justice Department and in the courts.
The
primary reason we elected this president in the first place was to get
immigration under control and Sessions is doing that!
If the President foolishly pushes Jeff
Sessions out of the Justice Department, the Senate will never confirm a
replacement who would carry out the immigration control agenda that Sessions
has undertaken.
Yesterday,
I told you about the asylum scam, here, and today
we bring your attention to Mother Jones with this headline:
Sessions Is Poised to Make It Vastly Harder for
Asylum-Seekers to Get Out of Detention
A new decision from Attorney General Jeff Sessions is likely to make it
dramatically harder for tens of thousands of
asylum-seekers to get out of detention.
How
many asylum-seekers are in detention and how many are free to roam America
while waiting for a decision? I don’t know the answer, but when I find
it, I will let you know. But, know that thousands of wannabe refugees are
simply free across America. Vast numbers of them will never show up for their
asylum hearing.
On Tuesday, in a now-familiar tactic, Sessions used his broad authority
over America’s immigration courts to refer a case to himself. The move will
allow him to reinterpret a 2005 decision from the Justice Department’s Board of
Immigration Appeals that gives some migrants the ability to get out of detention
on bond. Sessions now appears likely to strip many detained immigrants of that
right.
The self-referral comes two weeks after the Trump administration
proposed a rule that would allow it to detain migrant families indefinitely.
Combined, these two moves would make families seeking asylum much more
likely to spend months or even years in detention.
And,
what should be done now is a massive public relations campaign by the US
throughout Mexico and Central America about how asylum seekers will be detained
maybe for years. Such an effort could have a chilling effect on the hordes
hankering to move north.
Mother Jones continues…Under current law, asylum-seekers who cross
the border without authorization are entitled to bond hearings before an
immigration judge if they establish a credible fear of being persecuted in
their home country. In
a strange twist, asylum-seekers who request protection at official border
crossings—the government’s preferred route—must ask Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) to grant them parole, rather than asking a judge to grant
bond. That distinction matters because ICE has shown an almost complete unwillingness
to grant parole under Trump.
Eleanor Acer of Human Rights
First: “This is just not who we are as a country.” How dare
Acer and her ilk be the arbiters of who we are as a country! If it was up
to her we would have no borders and therefore no country!
Eleanor Acer, the director of the refugee protection program at Human
Rights First, says eliminating bond hearings would have an “absolutely
devastating impact” on
migrants because of the difficulty of being granted parole by ICE. “This is
just not who we are as a country,” she says. “This should not be a country
where people are thrown into jails and not even allowed to see a judge who
decides whether or not they could be released from detention or not.”
Sessions’ decision to review the case is the latest step in the Trump
administration’s systematic crackdown on asylum-seekers. In June, Sessions all
but eliminated gang and domestic violence as grounds for asylum after referring a different case to
himself. Earlier this month, the Trump administration proposed a rule to
terminate the Flores settlement agreement, a two-decade-old court settlement
that prevents the government from detaining migrant children for more than
about 20 days. The proposal would allow the Trump administration to detain
families indefinitely.
By
the way, this is very significant—eliminating fear of violence back home as a
grounds for gaining refugee protection and ultimately US citizenship!
We
have told you over the years how the Open Borders Left is systematically
eroding the definition of who is a refugee. A legitimate refugee, under
the 1951 UN Convention, must be able to prove that he or she (personally!)
would be PERSECUTED for one of several reasons including race, religion,
political views, if returned to their home country. There is nothing in
the definition about escaping violence or even war.
In
recent years we have been allowing border-crossers to claim they are escaping
gangs and abusive husbands to gain a legal foothold in America. Sessions is
forcing adherence to the original law and not allowing this expansion. Continue
reading Mother Jones here.
If
Sessions is forced out, you can be sure that the likes of Eleanor Acer and
MS-13 gang members will be whooping with joy! And, Trump will have
signaled that he is abandoning an immigration control agenda.
For
me, how we manage immigration is the only issue that matters for the future of
America. If you agree and are looking for something to do, let the
President know that
you like what AG Sessions is doing on the only issue that matters!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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