Donald Trump signed a proclamation halting asylum seekers ability to enter the United States between ports of entry for 90 days.
Speaking before leaving for France, the president said, “I just signed the proclamation on Asylum. Very important. People can come in but they have to come in through the ports of entry, and that to me is a very important thing.”
“Again, I reiterate, we need Democrat’s votes. They need to pass new immigration laws, because they’re flooding our country. We’re not letting them in, but they’re trying to flood our country. We need the wall, We’re building the wall, but we need it all built at one time and quickly. Its very important,” Trump added.
It is unclear what votes Donald Trump needs, given that he currently – until January – controls a majority in both the House and the Senate.
At current, there has been no actual construction on his long-desired “border wall.”
He continued, “we need democrats to support our new immigration laws to bring us up to date, the laws are obsolete and they’re incompetent. They’re the worst laws any country has anywhere in the world and it’s only because we don’t have the democrat’s votes so we need democrat votes so we can change immigration. We’ll have no trouble whatsoever at the border. We want people to come into our country, but they have to come into our country legally.”
The ACLU has headed to court against this proclamation.
“The president is simply trying to run roughshod over Congress’s decision to provide asylum to those in danger regardless of the manner of one’s entry,” Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the ACLU, told the Associated Press.
Those who do cross the border outside of a port of entry have, in the past, been arrested, but then released and monitored pending court hearings into the eligibility for asylum.
The “migrant caravan” Central America was a hot topic during the election, used to whip up anti-immigrant fervor during the election. Such discussion has slacked off post-election, and has people have seen that the caravan is not the threat it was made out to be.
The United States still has more than 5,600 active duty troops stationed at the border to somehow halt this supposed threat. The “caravan” is several hundred miles from the United States.
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