WND By Jason Hopkins, Daily Caller News Foundation March 31, 2025
'Prioritize American, not globalist, interests and to eliminate loopholes that encourage frivolous and fraudulent asylum claims'American asylum laws must be completely overhauled in order to avoid the southern border crisis that overwhelmed federal immigration officials under the Biden administration, according to immigration experts at the Heritage Foundation.
Under the Biden administration, the country was hit with the worst immigration crisis in history, with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials experiencing the highest and second highest border encounters in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 respectively, according to the agency's data. The ensuing migration crisis not only overwhelmed federal immigration authorities, but also pushed state and local governments across the country to the brink.
A new report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank based in Washington, D.C., breaks down how such a crisis can be permanently avoided in the future — no matter who may be occupying the White House.
"The U.S. refugee and asylum process was devised during a different era and no longer serves the national interest," the report, first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, states. "Rather than adding to the already confusing law and procedures, the entire approach must be redesigned to preserve a credible refugee system while removing the possibility of gaming it to immigrate for purely economic purposes."
The report calls on federal lawmakers to limit asylum and refugee approvals to applicants who claim persecution by their government only on the basis of their race, religion, nationality or political opinion. Current U.S. law, based on the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention, allows foreign nationals to also claim persecution by their native country due to "membership of a particular social group," which Heritage argues is an ambiguous phrase that has allowed foreign nationals to abuse en masse.
Legislators must prohibit illegal border crossers from pursuing asylum, limiting such applications only to those arriving lawfully at ports of entry, Heritage argues. Migrants should also not be eligible for asylum if they: can safely relocate to their home country, already settled in a third country or travelled across a safe country and did not first seek asylum there.
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