Asylum isn't as crazy as Trump claims

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : After singing the serial killer's praises, Trump -- never one for logical transitions -- launched into his traditional anti-immigrant vitriol:But Hannibal Lecter, congratulations.
47% : In Common Sense, Thomas Paine wrote about how the American colonies served as "the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.
43% : But before he develops any new draconian, zero-tolerance measures to limit or ban asylum, Trump must reevaluate his understanding (or lack thereof) of the word.
35% : Instead, Trump will likely up the ante he set during his first term, in which he increased deportation of asylees, imposed excessive application fees, enacted transit bans, limited work permits for asylees seeking appellate review of their cases, and signed a litany of executive restrictions that decimated asylum.
24% : This verbal diarrhea left many observers questioning whether Trump understood asylum or was really confusing the concept of political refuge with mental institutions.
21% : In front of a New Jersey crowd in May, Trump claimed that "the mental institution population is down because they're taking people from insane asylums [in foreign countries]" and sending them to the United States.
18% : Yet, Trump frequently coupled his criticisms of asylum with unrelated comments about mental institutions, creating confusion about his understanding of the issue.
17% : During several campaign rallies this year, Donald Trump denounced the political practice of asylum -- namely, the legal status requested by foreigners fleeing political persecution and violence and entering the United States via a port of entry.

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