Trump’s Plan To Deter Asylum Seekers Is A Winning One

Immigration is a hot-button topic so embedded into the American story that it’s commemorated at the base of the Statue of Liberty with the famous Emma Lazarus poem. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”  

As important as it is to the American story, the system has been broken for a long time.

The beginnings of a wall between us and Mexico began construction during World War I. President Richard Nixon tried to stop the influx of illegal drugs through Operation Intercept. After the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 in order to build 850 miles of border fencing. And even that was not enough.

The Donald Trump administration has promised to fix it and continues to stab at the problem.  Though they haven’t built the wall – yet? — they are at least stemming the tide without any help from Congress.

The most recent swing came this week when the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new rulefor migrants who cross the southern border.  It states that migrants aren’t eligible for asylum unless they apply in the first safe country they enter. That’s bad news for Central American migrants who traveled through multiple countries before reaching our border, but good news for American taxpayers who realize they’re on the line for the massive influx of aliens who put a strain on our cultural [immigration] infrastructure.  People who claim a fear-based need for asylum will automatically be taken off the list if they crossed through Mexico, Guatemala, or other countries before arriving in the United States.  That will at least put a dent in the asylum claims, which have clogged up the immigration system and made it move at glacial pace.  

Even Democrats – notably, those of the unelected variety – realize that something needs to be done.  

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