DHS Claims Migrants Are Using US Asylum System Like a 'Get-Out-of-Deportation-Free Card'
The comment follows Trump's decision to grant asylum to at least 49 white South Africans who claimed they were victims of genocide
Taylor Odisho / Published May 25 2025, 12:42 PM EDT
The DHS claimed the U.S. asylum system is being abused by a gay Guatemalan man fighting to return stateside despite granting refugee status to at least 49 white South Africans (pictured). X
The Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) argued that migrants are exploiting the U.S. asylum system as a "get-out-of-deportation-free card."
"America's asylum system was never intended to be used as a de facto amnesty program or a catch-all, get-out-of-deportation-free card," the department, led by Kristi Noem, declared in an X post shared Saturday.
The post included a photo of an CNBC headline that read: "U.S. Orders Trump administration to facilitate the return of Guatemalan deportee," referencing a gay Guatemalan man, referred to as "OCG" in legal filings, who applied for asylum last year after surviving two homophobic attacks in his home country.
"The person in question was an illegally present alien who was granted withholding of removal to Guatemala. He was instead removed to Mexico, a safe third option for him, pending his asylum claim," the DHS claimed.
https://www.latintimes.com/dhs-claims-migrants-using-us-asylum-system-like-get-out-deportation-free-card-583769
