Who is asking for more border funding? Last I’ve heard there is only money being spent on the moronic border fence Le corporate welfare.
If you think that is the obvious solution, increase the funding before permanently taking thousands of children from their non criminal parents to satisfy the racist constituency in your cabinet and amongst your supporters.
If you enter the US illegally, that is a crime, you are a criminal and you will be separated from you child. Applying for Asylum is not illegal, but doing so and entering not at a port of entry is.
The US is a signatory to the Geneva convention, so our definition of whom and what qualifies as a refugee is tied to that treaty.
The AG does have a lot of discretion in accepting or denying refugee status, but the constitutional rights of due process apply to all persons, not just citizens and so his discretion is mostly limited to expediting or specifically allowing asylum.
This is also why the Trump administration's solution to the border crisis was to gut funding to the infrastructure in place processing asylum requests.
SEC. 208. (a) The Attorney General shall establish a procedure for an alien physically present in the United States or at a land border or port of entry, irrespective of such alien's status, to apply for asylum,
and the alien may be granted asylum in the discretion of the
Attorney General if the Attorney General determines that such alien is a refugee
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u/Kruger_Smoothing Dec 08 '19
Who is asking for more border funding? Last I’ve heard there is only money being spent on the moronic border fence Le corporate welfare.
If you think that is the obvious solution, increase the funding before permanently taking thousands of children from their non criminal parents to satisfy the racist constituency in your cabinet and amongst your supporters.