Asylum plan is insane: Rule will boost protections for illegal...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Among our concerns was the proposal would allow asylum officers to grant asylum -- placing the migrant on a path to citizenship -- following a "nonadversarial hearing," at which the asylum seeker could be represented by counsel, but the American people wouldn't.
50% : The credible fear standard is low, and migrants who cleared it (as 83% did between Fiscal Year 2008 and the fourth quarter of FY 2019, according to Department of Justice statistics) were placed into removal proceedings to seek asylum from an immigration judge.
48% : While Immigration and Customs Enforcement can also offer evidence and cross-examine the migrant in that removal hearing, under Biden administration policy, there's no longer a guarantee the agency will even send an attorney.
45% : Overturning decades of practice, those rules allow Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers -- not immigration judges as in the past -- to grant asylum to migrants apprehended at the border.
44% : Under the DOJ statistics cited above, fewer than 17 percent of the border crossers who passed credible fear in the past were granted asylum by immigration judges -- meaning asylum officer grants are "about" 50 percent higher, reflecting the safeguards in the older system.
40% : The DHS and DOJ proposed amending that system in August 2021 to allow the asylum officers themselves to grant asylum to migrants who passed credible fear.
40% : It quotes DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who contends "about a quarter" of those people were granted asylum, "similar to the percentage" under the immigration-judge system.
36% : That amendment, however, directed asylum officers to interview entrants requesting asylum to determine whether they had a "credible fear" of persecution, essentially a screen to weed out truly bogus claims.
36% : Tackling that challenge and securing the Southwest border, where more than 2 million illegal entrants have been apprehended and a half million others have evaded Border Patrol this fiscal year alone, should have taken precedence over providing more rights to illegal entrants.

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