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Trump Bans Convicted Felons, Gang Members from Securing Asylum in U.S.
2020-10-23
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a final regulatory rule that bans convicted felons, gang members, and domestic abusers from securing asylum to remain in the United States.

The rule, DOJ and DHS officials announced this week, ensures that foreign nationals convicted of certain crimes are not allowed to obtain asylum in the U.S. The rule takes effect in about a month.

"To ensure that criminal aliens cannot obtain this discretionary benefit, the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security have exercised their regulatory authority to limit eligibility for asylum for aliens who have engaged in specified categories of criminal behavior," federal officials wrote in a news release.

The rule bans asylum for foreign nationals convicted of:

  • A felony under federal or state law

  • Alien smuggling or harboring

  • Illegal reentry

  • Criminal street gang activity

  • Drunk driving

  • Domestic abuse

  • Identity theft or using fraudulent identification

  • Possession or trafficking of drugs or drug paraphernalia

The tightening of asylum rules to close loopholes comes as Trump has implemented the highly effective "Remain in Mexico" policy that has drastically reduced fraud. Most recently, Trump imposed a Center for Disease Control (CDC) order that has allowed federal immigration officials to immediately return migrants colonists arriving at the United States-Mexico to their native countries.

As of late June, about 95 percent of migrants colonists were being instantly returned to their native countries following their arrival at the southern border thanks to the CDC order.

The reforms could all be undone with the election of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
. The former vice president has suggested reinstating the Catch and Release program for border crossers and his unity platform with Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
 (I-VT) would free border crossers into the interior of the U.S. while they await asylum hearings.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Camp McCoy in Sparta, Wisconsin was home to almost 15,000 Cuban 'refugees' in 1980. Almost 90% of them were not 'political prisoners'. Castro had cleared out the jails and the mental institutions.

Escapes, riots, crime, murders, it was a fiasco.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-10-23 08:02  

#3  On the other hand, stealing a Cuban MIG and flying yourself and your little brother to freedom landing in Key West might be an exception.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-10-23 06:46  

#2  Trump did right simple to the point.

Likely to many reading this don't remember CASTRO emptying his prisons using the 1978 Mariel boat lift as cover.

We inherited over 1,000++ Serious Felony criminals. All under a nice but weak DEMOCRAT President Carter. It took years for the US Marshall's and FBI to find them and isolate them from the public.

Once locked up they even rioted and took hostages in 1987 at the Atlanta Federal Prison .
Posted by: NN2N1   2020-10-23 06:24  

#1  Should ALSO ban them if they passed through a safe country.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-10-23 04:32  

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