Tornado Alley (PROG)

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The US has made migrants at the border wait months to apply for asylum. Now the dam is breaking.

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Double chuckle - "Chuckle, this point, "But here’s the catch: Any wall would be built a mile or so inland from the border. Many of those attempting to immigrate are Central Americans seeking asylum. To petition for asylum, a person needs to be on U.S. soil under current law. So in theory, immigrants could cross the border and file a legally valid petition for asylum before reaching Trump’s wall. The incentive would still exist, and so would the visa overstays.""

Also, in theory immigrants could cross the border and have children between the border and the wall.
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By limiting the number of asylum seekers allowed to come legally, Trump made his own immigration crisis.

By Dara [e-mail] Nov 28, 2018, 7:00am EST

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Even the most orderly port, in Tijuana, is stretched to the breaking point

Tijuana is the most appealing destination for asylum seekers traveling northward to the US for two reasons. It’s relatively safe, because the routes to the US aren’t as tightly controlled by criminal organizations and the city itself isn’t as dangerous as Ciudad Juarez. It also has migrant shelters with capacity for hundreds of people.

But capacity for hundreds, as the past few days have shown, isn’t nearly enough. There are currently approximately 4,700 Central Americans in a temporary shelter in a converted sports complex, and authorities estimate thousands more will come in the next few weeks.

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The Trump administration, meanwhile, isn’t focusing on getting Congress to increase spending at ports of entry. Instead, it’s pushing Congress to overhaul asylum law entirely (not to mention revamping the legal immigration system, building the wall, etc.).

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We can’t know how many people are crossing illegally because they can no longer afford to wait

Zero-tolerance prosecution of illegal border crossers was designed to pressure asylum seekers to cross into the US at ports of entry — pressure that only increased after the Trump administration announced an asylum ban for people caught crossing between ports of entry (the ban was in effect for nine days before a judge halted it).

At the same time, metering is pressuring them not to wait at ports of entry.

Those are the only two options.

Logically, it seems plausible that the bottlenecks at ports of entry have encouraged people to cross between them — the exact thing the Trump administration says it wants to stop. Asked directly whether this is a problem, McAleenan said, “I hope not.”

But internal CBP communications reveal that it’s an accepted phenomenon. An early communiqué about the caravan in October said that while the caravan would probably arrive at a port of entry, there was a risk the migrants might choose to cross illegally if they suspected metering would be in effect.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/28/18089048/border-asylum-trump-metering-legally-ports

There wasn't a crisis at the border before Trump created what must be, or close to it, the greatest
fuck-up in the history of immigration to the good ol' - rather now, the stupid and mean new - U.S.A.

It's called forethought, Donald. Consequences. Biggest mistake you've ever made is running for
president. One of the biggest mistakes (GWB invaded Iraq) America has made was electing you.

Can only hope there are no more deaths due to this catastrophe in the making,

Thanks to the short-sighted, ego-driven, devoid of quality forethought, mentality embedded in the self-stated first-grade temperament of Donald Trump.