To End Illegal Immigration, Don't Fix The Asylum System - Abolish it!
Joe Biden’s border crisis is over. It didn’t take new laws, just a new president...
What happens next time we get a president - as we will - with Biden’s border philosophy?
... one important change would make it much harder for a President Jasmine Crockett or President Gavin Newsom to illegally usher in millions more illegal aliens.
End asylum.
After all, the Democrats’ rationale for admitting all those millions of illegal border-crossers was that they had a “right” to claim asylum, the legal protections offered to political or religious refugees.
Many never even bothered to apply, but those who did produced an immigration-court backlog that may never be cleared.
That means these illegal-alien applicants will get to stay (and work) here “legally” for years before their hearing dates arrive - having kids, buying homes, putting down roots.
And when they lose, as most will, how are we supposed to find and remove them?
A new Heritage Foundation report laid out several important ways to reform and restrict asylum...
Asylum needs to be abolished altogether.
Current asylum law was invented in 1951 to deal with the fallout of World War II and the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe.
... it’s an anachronism, a Cold War relic out of place in today’s very different world.
... asylum represents a surrender of national sovereignty.
Instead of a country’s government deciding to bring in refugees, asylum means the illegal alien gets to decide, by claiming the legal right to stay in the country he has infiltrated - whether that country’s people like it or not...
Ending asylum in the United States will first require our withdrawal from the United Nations framework known as the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol.
To do so, President Donald Trump can simply give the UN Secretary-General one year’s notice...
But that alone won’t be enough: Congress must also amend the 1980 Refugee Act, which incorporated the UN treaties’ asylum provisions into US law.
The revised measure can eliminate any opportunity for an illegal alien to stay under any circumstances, by dismantling the asylum pipeline entirely...
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