Amnesty invasion: Over 750K work permits handed out to largely bogus asylum applicants

[Chosen Daughter]

Amnesty invasion: Over 750K work permits handed out to largely bogus asylum applicants
Daniel Horowitz · April 16, 2019   


During a campaign rally on August 31, 2016, Donald Trump promised to “immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants.” Unfortunately, almost three years later, not only is the DACA amnesty alive and well, an entirely new amnesty for hundreds of thousands of bogus asylees, which is fueling the core magnet of today’s border invasion, is growing like wildfire. The million-dollar question is why is the administration continuing to give hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants work permits?
A quick glance at USCIS data on the number of work permits issued by this administration for various categories of migrants shows that nearly 750,000 employment authorization documents have been issued to “asylum applicants” for FY 2017 and FY 2018

While Trump wasn’t president for the first few months of FY 2017, the number of work permits issued for “c8” status, which means those who are enjoying catch and release pending their asylum claims, topped 403,000. In FY 2018, that number was 345,048, which is still well above the levels during Obama’s second term when he began offering this amnesty program in large numbers and applying it to people who didn’t deserve it.


Once again, our laws on immigration aren’t broken, the problem is what the executive and judicial branches have done with them. Asylum was clearly intended for isolated individuals with particularized persecution. Obviously, for those people, it made sense to offer a path to a work authorization while they are in the country pending their asylum claim in immigration court. But even for legitimate claims, this was a discretionary program, as indicated in the above USCIS chart.
As it states in 8 U.S.C. §1158(d)(2), “An applicant for asylum is not entitled to employment authorization, but such authorization may be provided under regulation by the Attorney Genera,” after 180 days. The administration is under no obligation to issue such permits, even when there are prima facie legitimate claims. How much more so when this is one mass fraud with almost none of them being legitimate asylees and coming in through mass caravans. Why in the world would the administration continue this policy and even grow it as the flow expands?

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/amnesty-invasion-750k-work-permits-handed-largely-bogus-asylum-applicants/

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Why in the world would the administration continue this policy and even grow it as the flow expands?

To own the liberals?

[Sanguine]

Once again, our laws on immigration aren’t broken, the problem is what the executive and judicial branches have done with them. Asylum was clearly intended for isolated individuals with particularized persecution. Obviously, for those people, it made sense to offer a path to a work authorization while they are in the country pending their asylum claim in immigration court. But even for legitimate claims, this was a discretionary program, as indicated in the above USCIS chart.
As it states in 8 U.S.C. §1158(d)(2), “An applicant for asylum is not entitled to employment authorization, but such authorization may be provided under regulation by the Attorney Genera,” after 180 days. The administration is under no obligation to issue such permits, even when there are prima facie legitimate claims.

And, there it is. 

[Formerly Once-Ler]

@Chosen Daughter
I can't understand why this thread has so few comments.  Invade the border, demand asylum, get a job. 

It's a joke yes?  President Trump wouldn't authorize 3/4 of a million jobs for illegals.  He hates what they've done to America and Mar a Lago.

[Chosen Daughter]

@Chosen Daughter
I can't understand why this thread has so few comments.  Invade the border, demand asylum, get a job. 

It's a joke yes?  President Trump wouldn't authorize 3/4 of a million jobs for illegals.  He hates what they've done to America and Mar a Lago.

Yes it is a joke.  He has the authority with William Barr right now to reject asylum for all immigrants except unaccompanied children.  Its the law already and William Bar just needs to declare that we are not taking asylum and they must seek it in the first safe country which is Mexico.