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0 pointsoutworlder6y ago0 comments

> They are essentially prisons, because that is what we do with people who break the law.

If you cross the border to request asylum, doesn't matter if walking or by using a star trek teleporter, you are committing no crime. They are breaking no laws.

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maxk426y ago· 3 in thread

False. If you cross the border illegally you are a criminal, period. It is not suddenly legal if you subsequently request asylum and asylum may only be granted if entering at a legal port of entry, so these people do not qualify for asylum.

outworlderOP6y ago

EDIT: technically, you are breaking a law, as it is a misdemeanor. Have you found any instances where this was prosecuted, following a successful asylum application?

It is NOT false. You need to be either at a port of entry or in the US to apply. You have one year to do so.

https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/qu...

> You may apply for asylum regardless of your immigration status and within one year of your arrival to the United States.

You may apply even if convicted of a crime (although it doesn't mean it will be granted)

> Yes, but you may be barred from being granted asylum depending on the crime

tzs6y ago

If you cross the border to reach a port of entry to request asylum, it is not an illegal border crossing.

maxk426y ago

A port of entry is a place where one may lawfully enter a country. There is no law carving-out an exception to lawful entry for people who plan to eventually travel to a lawful port of entry.

big_chungus6y ago· 1 in thread

At a port of entry only. At which point, you can't be released into the country while you wait, because 90% don't actually show up for hearings.

FireBeyond6y ago

So said Mike Pence, and was later shown to be "not correct".

The only people who were being released were the ones which border authorities themselves deemed "low risk", and were released with ankle monitoring, and even then only released because we refuse to process them in anything approaching a timely manner.

ng126y ago

So why don't we want to help ICE do their job? We can provide better living situations for people waiting for their case to be processed and better IT solutions to improve our ability to process cases.

Taking petty stabs at ICE (like making it harder for them to do CI/CD) seems pretty unhelpful.

Fellshard6y ago

Yet we have seen budget after budget blocked that would fund more humane facilities. If you care about stabilizing the asylum pathway, you have to be willing to fund it.

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