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| U.S. Reaches Deal With Mexico To Have Asylum Applicants Wait Across The Border |
| 2018-11-25 |
| [Hot Air] I’m shocked, and for once it’s the good kind of shocked. Read yesterday’s post for background if you haven’t already. How on earth did the White House convince Mexico’s new populist left-wing president to go for this? The status quo: An asylum-seeker surrenders to U.S. authorities, they apply for asylum, and they’re either detained while they wait or, given the paucity of detention facilities, they’re released into the United States with orders to show up for their asylum hearing. Some will, some won’t. The new process: An asylum-seeker surrenders to U.S. authorities, they go to the federal courthouse for an initial asylum hearing, and if the judge doesn’t rule then and there then they go back over the border to Mexico to wait for a determination. No more catch and release. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 From peanut gallery’s BBC article: Amid growing desperation on Sunday, the group of about 500 migrants - who had been taking part in a peaceful protest for the right to seek political asylum in the US - made a run for the border. Mexico's Home Secretary, Alfonso Navarrete, said the group had asked for help to organise the demonstration, but had reportedly been encouraged by some of the movement's leaders to split into different groups and try to cross into the US. According to news agency AFP, a number managed to climb over the first fence. It was as they tried to cross a second, spike-topped wall that officials on the US side began throwing tear gas. An AFP journalist saw the migrants - including mothers and children - trying to protect themselves from the gas, with some crying out that they only wanted to find a work and a better life in the US. I am all admiration at mothers able to climb over such barriers with small children, but now they will not pass Go, nor collect the $200. There is a lesson in this about assumptions and counting chickens, one suspects. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-11-25 20:42 |
| #10 It sounds like a there is a defacto deal. Mexico will deport the 500 who stormed the American border fence. |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2018-11-25 19:37 |
| #9 ...the court needs to reexamine the relationship between Taney and Lincoln. There are monuments (for now) to Lincoln, not too many to Chief Justice Taney. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-11-25 16:06 |
| #8 Interference with proper executive orders by US judges is now the "normal" course of events. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-11-25 14:37 |
| #7 They are counting on a "Judge in Hawaii" overruling Trump's order. |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2018-11-25 13:56 |
| #6 Mexican officials deny US border deal Their alternative? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-11-25 12:42 |
| #5 Mexican officials deny US border deal Saying so doesn’t mean they didn’t do it, though. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-11-25 12:11 |
| #4 No more catch and release and Trump doesn't take any more heat for separating children from their families. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-11-25 10:47 |
| #3 Word is out they're doing the reverse Taco Bell today: "Run for the border". Expect festivities and a border closure |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-11-25 07:52 |
| #2 ...then they are prepared for the border to close. The man has a pretty good record of doing what he said he was going to do. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-11-25 07:50 |
| #1 Mexican officials deny US border deal |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-11-25 06:32 |