Q&A of the Day – How Legal Immigration & the Asylum Process Works
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Today’s Entry: Submitted via talkback regarding the how border crossers can legally immigrant into our society.
Bottom Line: Today’s question comes on the back of last week’s “Latino Protest” of Florida’s new E-Verify law, whereby businesses with 25 or more employees must verify all employees are lawful. And of course, it comes after nearly two and a half consecutive years of record setting illegal immigration across our southern border led by the Biden Administration's open border processes. Today’s question is an excellent one because it serves to set the reset button about what is and isn’t legal and in terms of the now stunning 6.4 million border crossers under Biden, how many will prove to be illegal immigrants.
First thing’s first in terms of addressing the question about legal immigration into this country. There are only two ways to legally immigrate on a permanent basis in this country. The first and most commonly successful way for legal immigration is the traditional process of applying for US citizenship. Approximately 680,000 naturalized citizens complete this process annually. That’s where almost all legal citizens have come from historically and are derived from today as well. In the context of your question there’s an important distinction. The only way one can begin the legal naturalization process is from one’s home country. Therefore, it’s not possible for a border crosser to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. In the on again off again debates in Washington about the pathway to citizenship this has been one of the most hotly debated aspects of potential reforms. The question many press is whether the naturalization process should be allowed to be started by those who’re within the United States already. Historically most Democrats have pushed that perspective while most Republicans aren’t inclined to provide a pathway for legitimacy to those who’ve broken federal laws to be here to begin with. As for the border crossers, there’s only one way they can be granted legitimacy and that’s through the asylum process.
The abuse of the asylum process in this country is something I’ve covered for years as I exposed Chicago-based open border advocacy group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, in 2018, as the group which first organized and coached migrant caravans in central American countries as to what to say to be granted an asylum hearing which has become the standard operating procedure for all border crossers which are interdicted in recent years. Specific to the asylum process here’s how it works.
When a border crosser declares asylum and is processed, they’re provided with what’s called a “notice to appear”. It’s a legal notice to appear before a judge who will hear their asylum case to determine the legitimacy of the claim. Because of the overwhelming of the process by border crossers, we have reports of cases now not being heard for up to 1,400 days, or close to 4 years. And in the end very few are deemed to be legit due to asylum law which states: One who is seeking asylum must do so in the first safe country they are encountered in. In the context of border crossing this means the only legal asylum seekers at our southern border could theoretically be Mexicans, and the only asylum seekers at our northern border would be those seeking to flee Canada (which is understandable these days...). This is why we know almost all asylum seekers are in fact illegal immigrants who abuse the asylum process being enabled by the Biden administration.
As covered in my story Asylum seekers are almost all illegal immigrants: According to the DHS’s reporting here’s what we know...
- 87% of these individuals haven’t shown up for court appearances as promised at the time of their release
- Only 12% who do show up are determined to be legitimate asylum seekers
- Thus Only 1.5% of asylum seekers are legit
In other words, 98.5% of seekers caught and released in our country are illegal immigrants. We’ve never come close to experiencing anything like this in our country’s history. That’s what led to President Trump’s remain in Mexico policy which was rescinded under President Biden.