11-02-2018, 04:20 AM
(11-02-2018, 12:19 AM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: What Trump is doing is not a case of cracking down on 'illegal immigration'.
Traveling from Central America through Mexico to apply for asylum at an authorized U.S. border port is not illegal.
If it were, Trump and company could deploy police officers to the border, arrest all of the migrants immediately for illegal entry (misdemeanor), and either deport them immediately or prosecute them.
Trump's rhetoric and threats aren't aimed exclusively at the minority of the caravan migrants who try to cross at unauthorized border points, which would be 'illegal immigration'.
His rhetoric and threats are aimed at all of the migrants, most of whom are simultaneously exercising their legal and human rights under U.S. and International law. So, Trump is primarily targeting 'legal immigration'.
Of course this isn't true either is it?
Falls over on a couple of accounts. Firstly, the potential asylum seeker is obliged to apply for asylum at the first safe country the arrive at and at the designated ports of entry. They also need to be applying under specific grounds and these reasons need to be truthful.
Did they apply for asylum at Mexico?
Did they apply at the designated Mexican ports of entry?
Are they going apply under specific grounds?
Will it be truthful?
If you say that if some of these answers are "No" then they can be arrested right?
So the police go to arrest Mr and Mrs Guatemala for not applying in Mexico and they say they are Mexican and joined the caravan once it crossed the border, making good USA the first safe country arrive at to seek refuge. As to whether they were fleeing gang violence and lived in fear (applicable reason) or the real reason (they saw this as a chance of great comparable wages) is needing now to be investigated.
So do the police arrest them for having done the wrong tbing? Multiple this situation 5000 times.