Asylum Officers Work for the American People, Not Foreign Nationals
By Matt O'Brien July 3, 2019 7 Comments
Opponents of the Trump administration have filed suit to block the president’s Migration Protection Protocols (MPP) program – known colloquially as the “stay in Mexico program.†That’s not surprising. Neither is the fact that the suit is being pursued in the notoriously activist Ninth Judicial Circuit.
What is surprising, however, is that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers have jumped on the anti-Trump bandwagon. The American Federation of Government Employees Local 1924, the union representing asylum officers, filed a friend of the court brief claiming that, “[The MPP] violates our Nation’s longstanding tradition and international treaty and domestic obligation not to return those fleeing persecution to a territory where they will be persecuted.â€
Aside from the questionable ethics demonstrated by federal employees who insert themselves into a lawsuit between the government and foreign nationals pressing bogus claims for refuge in the U.S., there are also a number of egregious legal flaws in that assertion:
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2019/07/03/asylum-officers-work-for-the-american-people-not-foreign-nationals/
