The history and intent behind asylum date back to the atrocities foisted upon the Jewish people in WWII. Today asylum is largely sought by people to flee poverty, crime and dysfunctional governments as these people travel many miles to countries with generous welfare states. Countries all over the world are waking up to this reality as they are wanting to assert their sovereignty:
Politicians across the Continent, pressured by challenger parties campaigning against mass immigration, are starting to realize that things cannot continue as they are. Ursula von der Leyen promises action from the Commission. Donald Tusk has demanded the right to suspend asylum altogether. Emmanuel Macron – never too shy to make a bombastic statement in contradiction to his policies – has declared, “we cannot embrace the misery of the world.”
…The truth is all Western countries are facing the same immigration pressures, and are finding the international treaties they signed seven decades ago are no longer fit for purpose…
And a serious problem it is. For countries without functioning borders cease to be countries. When the privileges of citizenship and legal residency are granted to anybody who enters a country illegally, the very concept of citizenship is damaged and will without change one day be destroyed altogether. Across Europe, rising sexual violence, knife and gun crime, and organised criminal activity like drug distribution and smuggling migrants are all connected to the spike in migration. With illegal migrants costing receiving states ÂŁ400,000 each, net, city mayors and national leaders say services need to be cut and taxes must rise.
First acknowledge that asylum is largely farce used by people to gain access to countries with generous welfare states:
Many migrants are denied their asylum claims, but European countries face the same obstacles in deporting them as in Britain. According to the European Commission, 440,600 migrants were ordered to leave the EU last year, but only 83,400 did so.
The solution is to enforce the laws as written. Writing new laws won’t make politicians enforce them any more than they do the laws we have now.
I would support regulation that codifies the process of how the laws works.
All illegal immigrants must be detained. If there is no bed space then;
All others shall remain in a 3rd country while they await their hearing;
Then, if and only if it can be determined that allowing individual immigrants held in detention entry will benefit the US, they may be admitted on a paroled basis.
and finally, anyone claiming asylum who passed through a 3rd country where they could have applied for asylum or any person not crossing at a legal port of entry shall be ineligible.
Take the “may” out of it and put in some “shall” and “must”
