By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--June 30, 2019
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The Democrats have just got seven days left to join President Trump in amending America's asylum laws - after President Trump delayed --for 14 days - plans for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to deport undocumented families.
The declared positions of the 25 Democrats in the first of their debates seeking nomination as the Democrats' Presidential candidate in the 2020 elections indicate there is very little chance of changes in the existing asylum laws being agreed.Q: Given that you have a July 4th recess, is it realistic to think that you're going to get a deal to actually reform the asylum laws? THE PRESIDENT: No, because we could do it in--we could do it--you know, I say to people--I used to say 45 minutes; I say 15. But we could do it quickly. We could do it in a day. We could do it in an hour. We could reform asylum very quickly. We could get rid of the loopholes very quickly. These are horrible loopholes. And the reason that Mexico is so good--because they do have very, very tough immigration. They don't have the kind of things and the kind of stupidity that we have. I mean, where somebody touches one foot on our sand and we now have to bring them into a court. We then have to register them. We then have to catch and release them. And they go and they live in our country. Then they're supposed to come back in three years for a court case, and about 2 percent come back, as you know...
... Now, what we're doing is they come in illegally and we're bringing them out legally. But at the request of some, you know, very good Democrats, they asked me if I could hold it. And I did for a couple of weeks. And we have a week left. But other than the fact that we did get, in a very bipartisan way, we got--and I appreciate Speaker Pelosi because she really worked with us. It was humanitarian money... ... So here's what's happening. So I said, "All right, let's see if you can give that to us." Now, in the meantime, we did--we just got it approved last night, so we have the $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid. Right? And that's good. So we have that... ... But if they thought it was hard to get in, they wouldn't be coming up. They wouldn't be coming up. And so many lives would be saved. So, essentially, if they would change the laws--and I said, "It would take us an hour, but let's give you two weeks." At the end of the second week, we'll be removing people--legally removing. In other words --
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Q: So you're still planning for that deadline? That deadline is still in place, which is now a week from now? THE PRESIDENT: Oh, yeah. Unless we do something pretty miraculous. But the Democrats, it seems to me, they want to have open borders. And for the life of me, I cannot figure that out.With immigration identified as the most important problem facing the country - a major voter backlash seems inevitable unless the Democrats agree that asylum claims cannot be made by persons entering America other than at authorised points of entry. The Democrats will be signing their own national suicide note if they refuse to change the asylum laws.
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com