Illegal
Migrants entering the US will no longer be eligible to request asylum status in
the US. They will be deported back to their home countries. Citizens of other
countries who want to apply for asylum should contact the Embassies in their
home countries to apply for asylum.
Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker issued
a new asylum rule today as officials at the U.S.
southern border and U.S. military prepare to confront an approaching horde of
approximately 20,000 Central American migrant/invaders.
U.S. Department of Justice] Acting Attorney General Matthew
Whitaker and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen today
announced an Interim Final Rule declaring that those aliens who contravene a
presidential suspension or limitation on entry into the United States through
the southern border with Mexico issued under section 212(f) or 215(a)(1) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) will be rendered ineligible for asylum.
The Acting Attorney General and the
Secretary issued the following joint statement:
“Consistent with our immigration laws,
the President has the broad authority to suspend or restrict the entry of aliens
into the United States if he determines it to be in the national interest to do
so. Today’s rule applies this important principle to aliens who violate such a
suspension or restriction regarding the southern border imposed by the
President by invoking an express authority provided by Congress to restrict
eligibility for asylum. Our asylum system is overwhelmed with too many
meritless asylum claims from aliens who place a tremendous burden on our
resources, preventing us from being able to expeditiously grant asylum to those
who truly deserve it. Today, we are using the authority granted to us by
Congress to bar aliens who violate a Presidential suspension of entry or other
restriction from asylum eligibility.”
Section 212(f) of the Immigration and INA
states that “whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any
class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to
the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period
as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of
aliens as immigrants
or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to
be appropriate.”
Further, Section 215(a) of the INA
states that it is “unlawful…for any alien to depart from or enter or attempt to
depart from or enter the United States except under such reasonable rules,
regulations, and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the
President may prescribe.”
In Section 208(d)(5)(B) of the INA,
Congress specified that the Attorney General “may provide by regulation for any
other conditions or limitations on the consideration of an application for
asylum.” Today’s new rule applies to prospective presidential proclamations,
and is not retroactive.
Asylum is a discretionary form of relief
granted by the Executive Branch on a discretionary basis to those fleeing
persecution on the basis of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a
particular social group, or political opinion. The rule does not render
such aliens ineligible for withholding of removal under the INA or protection
from removal under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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