Trump ends the era of fake asylum claims

American Thinker 

Probably the most galling thing about Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris's open borders was in the surge of fake asylum claims, fraudulently filed, with a whopping fifty percent of them accepted by roundheeled activist Biden administration judges as real. 

Illegal migrants paid nothing to file them. NGOs and the United Nations coached them in how to use loopholes to win their claims, and Biden's judges were ready with their rubber-stamps, putting the illegal migrants on the express lane for public benefits, with immediate eligibility. With an acceptance rate like that and the payoff that followed, it's no wonder so many illegals tried their luck on this track. Biden even made it easy and convenient for them, through the no-vet CBP One app.

Fortunately, the Trump administration has seen through the problem.

According to the New York Post:

Nearly 80 percent of migrants seeking asylum in the US were sent packing in the last quarter, as immigration judges take a tougher line under the Trump administration, which has made it a priority to restore the border.

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“It’s having a real impact. The Trump Administration is doing all kinds of things to drive down the asylum grant rate,” said Andrew Arthur, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Policy and a former immigration judge.

Michael Cutler, who spent 30 years as an agent at the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, cheered the return of common-sense border policy.

“If you look at what asylum is supposed to be, it’s a very narrow definition . . . You have to be able to demonstrate a credible fear and be able to articulate that credible fear of persecution,” he told The Post.

It's immensely welcome news. The surge in fake asylum claims did a lot to crowd out real asylum claims, which involve true persecution by the state instead of living in a bad neighborhood and wanting a better-paid job, which is what the bulk of these fake cases ultimately were.

The Post reported that Trump got rid of about 100 Biden-appointed immigration judges, who had been waving almost every case through, and appointed military judicial people to take their place, people who knew how to read what a law said instead of what their feelings said.

That apparently worked, and presages the future of judicial reform on all matters, which is in the necessity of getting rid of politicized activist judges. 

With 80 percent of the phony asylum claims now being thrown out, word gets back to illegal aliens' homeland that the law means the law now and not what the nice NGO lady says. That will disincentize illegal migrations just as surely as lawless judges with political agendas incentivized it. Nothing gets a migrant's attention better than the idea that if you come illegally, you will not be allowed to stay.

Kudos to the Trump team for recognizing this reality.