Trump can refuse to accept asylum applications

[rangerrebew]

    Trump can refuse to accept asylum applications


    October 28, 2018

    Nolan Rappaport


    Many people mistakenly believe that asylum seekers have a right to apply for asylum in the United States.

    The first paragraph in the Immigration and Nationality Act's (INA) asylum provisions provides that aliens physically present in the United States "may" apply for asylum.

    But the second paragraph provides the following three exceptions, and asylum may be denied on the basis of disqualifying conduct, such as having been convicted of a particularly serious crime.

     https://thehill.com/opinion/immigrat...mpression=true

[thackney]

https://thehill.com/opinion/immigrat...mpression=true

@rangerrebew

The link does not work.

[endicom]

https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/413470-trump-can-refuse-to-accept-asylum-applications

[Fishrrman]

Time to END "asylum".
Put a total moratorium on it for a while (perhaps with a very, very few limited exceptions).

It's a backdoor to get around the rules of legal immigration (which I also believe should be ended for several decades, as well).

[Right_in_Virginia]

FTA

The United States currently has a safe third country agreement with Canada, and Trump is being urged by GOP leaders to establish one with Mexico too.  If he does this, America will not have to accept asylum applications from aliens coming here from Mexico.

Mexico already is encouraging the migrants in the caravan to apply for asylum in Mexico instead of in the United States. It has offered them temporary identification papers and jobs if they register for asylum in Mexico.

If Trump establishes third country agreements with a substantial number of countries, it could greatly reduce the number of asylum applications the United States has to consider.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I thought if a migrant refused a first off of asylum (Mexico) then the second country (USA) does not have to offer it.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

I thought if a migrant refused a first off of asylum (Mexico) then the second country (USA) does not have to offer it.

Correct, but the point's moot.

Even UN Treaties are worth the paper their written on.

These People Do NOT meet the requirements to qualify them as Refugees.