Remain in Mexico has a 0.1% asylum grant rate
Los Angeles Times [CA],
by
Gustavo Solis
Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk,
12/16/2019 12:52:52 PM
Bryan thought it would take him about a month to get from Honduras to the United States last year. (Snip) One policy in particular, called Migrant Protection Protocols or Remain in Mexico, has made it nearly impossible for migrants to receive asylum.
Data show that, as of September, of the more than 47,000 people in the program, fewer than 10,000 had completed their cases. Of that group, 5,085 cases were denied while 4,471 cases were dismissed without a decision being made — mostly on procedural grounds. Only 11 cases — or 0.1% of all completed cases — resulted in asylum being granted, according to the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 12/16/2019 12:59:58 PM (No. 263927)
If they put as much effort into making their home countries a better place they wouldn't need to leave in the first place.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/16/2019 1:08:24 PM (No. 263937)
Read to the point where the Times writer Gustavo began whining about asylum for Bryan. Bryan was looking for asylum in the wrong country. Gustavo needs a brushup in international asylum law. One cannot decide “I want to go there”… It doesn’t work that way. So Bryan would be fortunate if he were allowed to remain in Mexico.
Gustavo skips over the reason why Brian was kidnapped, searched and beaten. How did he attract the attention of his kidnappers?
As OP mentioned, we know why Gustavo wrote this and why the Times published it. And we are not having any.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bad-hair 12/16/2019 1:10:43 PM (No. 263939)
Sounds about right. Finally. Thank you President trump. I know it took a lot of effort. Sure you didn't have a quid pro quo with Mexico? I seem to recall tariffs being involved.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/16/2019 1:12:14 PM (No. 263942)
FTA:
“Every single one of these policies is to make asylum so difficult,” she said. “There are so many hoops to jump through — logistical barriers, family separation, Remain in Mexico, every single policy you can think of to send a message that if you want to try for asylum it’s going to be really, really hard.”
It’s not supposed to be a slamdunk, Gustavo. Sounds as though Bryan’s story really wasn’t good enough after all. Not good enough for a judge experienced in hearing these stories.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 12/16/2019 1:16:44 PM (No. 263951)
Still too many getting through.
Stay home and fix your own country, don't come here and drag ours down by stealing jobs and welfare, and bringing your totally dysfunctional "latin" culture here with your rape culture, drunk driving as normal, and extreme violence.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 12/16/2019 1:19:39 PM (No. 263956)
A couple of years ago I looked up how much American working families have money extorted from them by taxes that's given to the dictators/tyrants in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador and it's millions to each country. Instead of coming here the citizens of these countries should be demanding answers of where that money is going.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/16/2019 1:35:09 PM (No. 263984)
That asylum approval rate is about right, as the vast majority of those borderline asylum applicants are claiming asylum in the USA, due to them coming from impoverished countries where they could becoming victims of crimes in the future, along with claiming that they are coming to the USA to seek employment and a better life. Those are not legitimate reasons under US law to be granted asylum, that's why their applications for asylum are being denied at such a high rate.
Under provisions of the US immigration laws, such foreigners showing up at the borderline are considered to be intending immigrants without immigrant visas, and therefore are subject to being excluded from admission to the USA, and when found in the USA to be illegal aliens subject to being deported.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
janjan 12/16/2019 1:48:36 PM (No. 263999)
Asylum is not supposed to be easy. I’m sure they would like to go back to the days when they could request it and then be released to disappear into the US.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/16/2019 1:54:26 PM (No. 264007)
Cry me a river. Why didn't he just go to Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua or Belize and request asylum there? Or maybe even a different part of Honduras? Why does it ALWAYS have to be the U.S.?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bad-hair 12/16/2019 2:17:25 PM (No. 264026)
How is asylum supposed to be EASY. It took me over 5 years of "jumping through hoops" and over $5000 in legal fees to make sure I didn't accidentally screw up the paperwork and have to start over. That was for the normal non-asylum citizenship process coming from Canada.
Sorry folks if "easy" matters, stay home in Guatemala.
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No reason to read the article. It's meant to be a Sunday tearjerker about some illegal who got stripped an beat up by gangs. What it doesn't explain is how this person can "afford" to stay near the border he's been rejected from entering a year ago. My take is this is definitely on Trump executive order that is working, probably after surviving some dRATS infanticide party activist judge's rebuke. HA!