OldLady
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Read OUR laws. I don't think Trump can override it with an E.O. I could be wrong.If immigrants are fleeing violence and oppression in their home country, once the cross Mexico's border they have escaped the violence and oppression of their home country.There needs to be an agreement first with that "safe" country. Canada is one. Mexico is not.It's about time.
By definition, those seeking asylum, running away from something, must file for asylum in the 1st country they come to that is 'safe'....which is Mexico. Failure to do so makes anyone crossing into the US illegally ineligible for 'asylum'!
He ought to make it official through Executive order.
Just because Mexico is not as clean, just because they don't have as good of an education system, just because Mexico does not GIVE THEM EVERYTHING FOR FREE LIKE THE US DOES is not a good enough reason for them to have to come to the US...illegally.
Disease, violence, oppression in their home countries causing them to flee by the millions is a humanitarian crisis, one of the exact reasons the U.N. was created to solve. Let the U.N. set up shop in southern Mexico, to handle them as they cross the Mexican border.
(A)Safe third country
Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien if the Attorney General determines that the alien may be removed, pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral agreement, to a country (other than the country of the alien’s nationality or, in the case of an alien having no nationality, the country of the alien’s last habitual residence) in which the alien’s life or freedom would not be threatened on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, and where the alien would have access to a full and fair procedure for determining a claim to asylum or equivalent temporary protection, unless the Attorney General finds that it is in the public interest for the alien to receive asylum in the United States.
8 U.S. Code § 1158.Asylum
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1158